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Analytical models of the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) have numerous applications in the performance analysis of IEEE 802.11 networks. The model proposed in this paper distinguishes itself from existing approaches in that it allows throughput, delay, and frame loss ratio analysis under both saturation and non-saturation network conditions. It combines the Markov chain and the queuing theory...
In this paper, a unified analytical framework is established to study the stability, throughput, and delay performance of homogeneous buffered IEEE 802.11 networks with Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Two steady-state operating points are characterized using the limiting probability of successful transmission of Head-of-Line (HOL) packets $(p)$ given that the network is in unsaturated or...
Traditional Medium Access Control (MAC) algorithms for Distributed Co-ordination Function (DCF) in IEEE 802.11 extend window ranges after each packet collision in the next stage. As these window ranges intersect with window ranges of other stages, the system is collision prone. This paper proposes a class of collision resolution schemes for 802.11 contention window control with multistep distribution...
The evolution of wireless access technologies, the increasing demand of users and services, and the evolution of terminals (which have the ability to connect to different access technologies), strengthened the need to use all the available resources in an optimal way. This paper presents a new approach that uses the combination of multihoming and network coding to improve the allocation of network...
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are currently attracting a lot of attention due to their ability to provide cost-efficient broadband wireless connectivity. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a WMN by simulations considering packet delivery ratio (PDR), throughput and delay. For simulations, we used ns-3 simulator and Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP). We evaluate the performance of the...
Delay is a critical QoS performance metric for Multi-hop Wireless Network (MHWN). It is well known that schemes that give a higher data rate to the link with larger queue length can achieve high throughput performance. However, this queue-length-based approach may potentially suffer from large (even infinite) packet delays due to the subsequent contention problem caused by the next-hop arriving packets...
The spread of the Internet has given rise to strong demands for real-time services such as voice and streaming video. Since these services require guarantees that may include transmission rate, delay, and delay variance, the network, including the wireless access networks, must offer quality of service (QoS) guarantees. However, no radio access system fully supports QoS controls. In this paper, we...
The IEEE 802.11ai is an upcoming fast initial link setup (FILS) amendment that could enable a STA to achieve secure link setup in less than 100 ms. A successful link setup process will then allow the STA to send IP traffic with a valid IP address through the AP. In this paper, we first present a performance analysis on how well the legacy 802.11 can support FILS. We then demonstrate that the rate...
Transport layer performance in IEEE 802.11 mul-tihop wireless networks (MHWNs) has been greatly challenged by wireless medium characteristics and multihop nature which are the sources of several types of packet loss including collision, random channel errors and route failures. Rate control transport protocols, the candidates for multimedia streaming applications suffer from high loss rates and end-to-end...
With an increase in number of vehicles on road, applications and services offered by Intelligent Transportation System are growing in demand. However, there are still coverage and capacity limitation of wireless links that support such services. In this work, we address a new and novel concept that leverages 4G network for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. Instead of considering on-board units...
Vast majority of the services running on the smart phone today are networked in that significant amount of communication is required. Smart phone energy expenditure due to Wi-Fi communications constitutes significant portion of the battery discharge. In this paper, we first investigate the key factors influencing Wi-Fi energy consumption, and propose three energy management schemes: 1) Dynamic control...
In this paper, we introduce a new priority and admission control mechanism for applications in the Vehicular Communication Networks (VCNs). The adopted network architecture integrates Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) based on the standard IEEE 802.11p and Wireless LAN Mesh Networks (WMNs) based on IEEE 802.11s. The proposed scheme is designed to ensure seamless provision of infrastructure-to-vehicle...
The IEEE 802.11 standard based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are widely deployed and have gained greater popularity. It is anticipated that WLAN will play an important rule in the future wireless communication systems in order to provide several gigabits data rate. However, it has been a challenging problem to support the IEEE 802.11 WLAN devices to fully exploit the high throughput gains offered...
As a conventional MAC control protocol for wireless networks, IEEE 802.11 DCF hasn't taken account into the requirement, which TCP/UDP hybrid stream access needs for MAC frame length. The TCP/UDP hybrid stream's transmission delay would increase significantly, that always generate failure of TCP stream transmitting. This paper proposes an improved IEEE 802.11 DCF protocol and theory model based on...
This paper develops a simple analytical model based on a Markov chain that calculates saturation throughput and average packet delay for the IEEE802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) for network scenarios with voice and data stations. The analytical model is validated by comparing its results with simulation outcome. Based on the analytical model, a methodology that calculates voice capacity...
This paper investigates the impact of the hop-count and node density on the network performance of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). The analysis as well as simulation results indicate that the throughput decreases significantly when the packets traverse over a long chain of hops. Especially when the link is beyond 4 hops, the throughput can only get less than 60% of the single hop throughput. In another...
Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is among the most relevant forms of mobile ad-hoc networks. VANET helps improving traffic safety and efficiency. By exchanging information between each others, vehicles can warn drivers or even prepare for dangerous situation. These warnings can be about critical situations like vehicles merging in a highway. Detecting and warning about such situations require a reliable...
Efficient bandwidth estimation is significant for Quality of Service (QoS) of multimedia services in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. Many bandwidth estimation solutions have been developed such as probing-based technique and cross-layer scheme. However, these solutions either introduce additional traffic or require modification to the standard protocols. This paper develops a model based bandwidth estimation algorithm...
Although static mesh networks lack mobility, yet research shows that route breakages are quite frequent for reactive protocols in 802.11-based static mesh networks. In 802.11, a link is considered broken if a fixed number of consecutive transmission attempts fail at link-layer. However, transmissions failures can be temporary and may occur due a number of reasons including collisions on the channel...
In this paper a new backoff algorithm is proposed to enhance both the delay and the throughput performance of IEEE 802.11b MAC protocol. The proposed waiting time based backoff algorithm (WBA), observes the Waiting-time of each station during the backoff procedure in order to estimate the size of contention window in the network. The main objective of our investigation is to examine the performance...
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