Design and experimental evaluation of mobile wireless control load protocol

This paper examines the issues and problems in providing QoS in wireless environments. The design and implementation of the mobile wireless control load protocol is presented in this paper. The results from experimentation with our Free-BSD prototype implementation of MWCLP demonstrate that utilizing the available best effort bandwidth whilst preserving the privilege flow requirements can be achieved, at the same time finding an efficient solution to communicate to all terminals in the wireless subnet to avoid the shadow terminals problem associated with wireless networks, without resorting to the inefficient RTS-CTS handshaking available in wireless networks. Through experiments we have shown that the protocol can interwork with host mobility in heterogeneous wireless subnets.