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MAC Layer Admission Control and Priority Re-allocation for Handling QoS Guarantees in Non-cooperative Wireless LANs

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Providing QoS guarantee with appropriate service differentiation in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs is quite desirable. However, users may be selfish and thus rigorously try to maximize their performance by demanding high services even though the network has already saturated. On the other hand, user misbehaviors such as misuse of priority and over-rate transmission pose further harm to performance of existing flows. These application layer non-cooperation makes successful resource allocation very challenging with existing contention based CSMA/CA channel access. In this paper, we propose a MAC layer coordinated QoS framework of admission control and priority re-allocation for quality of services of real-time applications in wireless LANs. Our focus is on priority based MAC schedulers where each user can set its flow priority in order to receive appropriate level of services. With channel condition information such as available bandwidth and mean delay exchanged among neighboring stations, users can enforce admission control based on the perceived channel status and may re-allocate their priorities to accommodate existing flows as desired. User misbehaviors are identified by estimating the flow transmitting rate and matching priority setting, or even punished by assigning appropriate low priorities. Extensive simulations results show that the proposed framework can effectively coordinate wireless users on keeping reserved transmission rate, using appropriate MAC priority, and allocating sufficient resource.

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Ming Li received his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, where he received M.S. degree in Computer Science in Dec. 2001. His research interest includes QoS schemes for mobile ad-hoc networks and multimedia over wireless networks.

B. Prabhakaran is with the faculty of Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Dallas. He has been working in the area of multimedia systems: animation & multimedia databases, authoring & presentation, resource management, and scalable web-based multimedia presentation servers. Dr. Prabhakaran received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2003 for his proposal on Animation Databases. He has published several research papers in various refereed conferences and journals in this area.

He has served as guest-editor (special issue on Multimedia Authoring and Presentation) for ACM Multimedia Systems journal. He is also serving on the editorial board of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers. He has also served as program committee member on several multimedia conferences and workshops.

B. Prabhakaran has served as a visiting research faculty with the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park. He also served as a faculty in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore as well as in the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

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Li, M., Prabhakaran, B. MAC Layer Admission Control and Priority Re-allocation for Handling QoS Guarantees in Non-cooperative Wireless LANs. Mobile Netw Appl 10, 947–959 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-005-4451-7

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