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Modeling and performance evaluation of frame bursting in wireless LANs

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Yaser Pourmohammadi Fallah,

Hussein M. AlnuweiriAuthors Info & Claims

IWCMC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1143549.1143723

Published: 03 July 2006 Publication History

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Several enhancements to the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer of the IEEE 802.11 standard have been recommended in the new 802.11e standard. One main enhancement is the possibility to send bursts of frames during a limited duration called Transmission Opportunity (TXOP). Similar MAC efficiency enhancements such as Frame Aggregation have also been proposed for the upcoming 802.11n standard. We analyze the application of this feature to the existing 802.11 MAC and evaluate its performance under different network conditions. The frame bursting feature can increase the total capacity of an 802.11 network by reducing the contention and collision for bursty traffic sources. We extend the established 802.11 analytical models to include the frame bursting feature. Through simulation experiments we analyze the delay performance of the network under different frame bursting options and show that while in general frame bursting is useful and can increase the system capacity, it might cause excessive unfairness in certain cases. Using the findings of this article we present guidelines for implementing fair adaptive algorithms that use TXOP.

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DOI:10.1145/1143549

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Abichar ZChang J(2013)Group-Based Medium Access Control for IEEE 802.11n Wireless LANsIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing10.1109/TMC.2011.26412:2(304-317)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TMC.2011.264
Alnuweiri HFallah YNasiopoulos PKhan S(2009)OFDMA-based medium access control for next-generation WLANsEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking10.1155/2009/5128652009(1-9)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2009/512865
Pries RStaehle DMenth SMenth MTran-Gia P(2009)Impact of Best Effort Frame Bursting in IEEE 802.11 NetworksVTC Spring 2009 - IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073584(1-5)Online publication date: Apr-2009
https://doi.org/10.1109/VETECS.2009.5073584
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