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Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11e WLANs with Hidden Stations and Heterogeneous Traffic

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Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2006)

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IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) mechanism has been recently proposed for supporting differentiated Quality-of-Services (QoS) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Heterogeneous traffic generated by wireless multimedia applications and hidden stations arisen from the wireless transmission power constraints have significant impact on the performance of MAC protocols. This study performs extensive simulation experiments and conducts comprehensive performance evaluation of the IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) protocol in WLANs with hidden stations and heterogeneous traffic. For this purpose, non-bursty Poisson, bursty ON/OFF, and fractal-like self-similar processes with high variability are used to model and generate heterogeneous network traffic. The performance results have shown that the protocol is able to achieve differentiated throughput, access delay and medium utilization. However, the hidden stations can degrade the throughput and medium utilization and also increase the medium access delay greatly in the presence of heterogeneous traffic.

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  1. Department of Computing, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, U.K

    Mamun I. Abu-Tair & Geyong Min

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Minyi Guo

  2. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione - Second, University of Naples - Italy, Real Casa dell’Annunziata, via Roma, 29 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy

    Beniamino Di Martino

  4. Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Nordbergstr. 15/C/3, A-1090, Vienna, Austria/JPL, Caltech, USA

    Hans P. Zima

  5. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, TN 37996-3450, Knoxville, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  6. Grid Computing Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, 200240, Shanghai, China

    Feilong Tang

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Abu-Tair, M.I., Min, G. (2006). Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11e WLANs with Hidden Stations and Heterogeneous Traffic. In: Guo, M., Yang, L.T., Di Martino, B., Zima, H.P., Dongarra, J., Tang, F. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11946441_20

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