无线局域网接入机制QoS分析

简单介绍了无线网络服务质量的发展现状。分析了多种无线媒体接入机制对QoS支持的性能特点。以802.11e标准即将采用的接入机制EDCF和HCF对QoS支持的优越性与不足之处为例,探讨了有中心／无中心的无线局域网接入机制的发展方向。     

基于接入控制机制的无线局域网MAC协议

本文对IEEE 802.11无线局域网点协调功能的改进协议(MPCF)的性能进行深入的研究.MPCF基于接入控制和链式轮询机制.根据业务特点,MPCF协议分别为实时业务和非实时业务提供不同的服务策略:实时业务采用ACK应答方式,非实时业务采用无ACK应答方式,从而引入接入控制机制,更好地保证实时业务的服务质量.为了提高网络吞吐量,MPCF协议采用链式轮询机制.本文给出MPCF吞吐量的分析模型.仿真结果表明:MPCF协议的性能优于PCF协议,而且理论分析结果与仿真结果基本吻合.     

IEEE802．11无线局域网EDOF接入研究与仿真

分析了现有IEEE 802．11无线局域网的基本接入机制DCF(Distributed Coordination Function)对QoS(Quality of Service)技术支持的局限性，介绍了未来具有QoS保证的IEEE 802．11e标准采用的一种新的MAC层接入机制EDCF(Enhanced DCF)。对EDCF的性能进行了仿真，并对比原有DCF的性能对仿真结果进行了分析。     

IEEE802.11无线局域网EDCF接入研究与仿真

分析了现有IEEE 802.11无线局域网的基本接入机制DCF(Distributed Coordination Function)对QoS(Quality of Service)技术支持的局限性,介绍了未来具有QoS保证的IEEE 802.11e标准采用的一种新的MAC层接入机制EDCF(Enhanced DCF).对EDCF的性能进行了仿真,并对比原有DCF的性能对仿真结果进行了分析.     

一种改进的具有区分功能的无线局域网MAC机制

文章探讨了IEEE802.11MAC的信道分配机制,提出了一个改进的具有区分功能的MAC机制RDCF/P(RevisedDCF/Priority)。新机制引入了优先级的区分,根据优先级的不同设定不同的最大传输时间,让高优先级站点和流不仅得到长的服务时间,并优先得到信道使用权,且引入补偿门槛,减少了信道的冲突和空闲等待时间。通过理论分析和实验仿真可以得出,新机制有着好的QOS性能。     

无线局域网MAC层性能改进的一种方案

IEEE802.11是无线局域网的标准。IEEE802.11MAC层中的最基本机制是DCF（分布式协调功能）机制，主要用于支持异步数据业务。为了使DCF能支持实时业务，提出了一种改进机制DCF/P（带优先级的DCF）。仿真显示，DCF/P机制的实时业务性能要好于原DCF机制。     

用于公共无线接入的无线局域网

随着数据业务的不断增长，人们对无线数据业务的要求越来越高。从市场和技术的角度看，速率高、部暑方便且价格低廉的无线局域网(WLAN)公共无线数据接入服务正当其时。首先介绍了用WLAN提供公共无线接入可采用的三种运营模式。讨论了安全性、鉴权与计费、移动性、网络管理、服务质量等提供公共WLAN服务需要进一步考虑的技术问题，分析了移动运营商的实现方法，最后以诺基亚公司的OWLAN技术方案为例分析了网络的结构和组成。     

一种应用于Ad Hoc无线局域网的随机接入协议

本文分析了应用于Ad Hoc无线局域网的BSAC(Buffered Slotted ALOHA CDMA)随机接入协议,并且首次提出了采用Markov(马尔可夫)链方法的分析模型.此模型应用两个Markov链模型,一个表示节点中的M/M/1/k排队模型,另一个表示网络中活动节点数量.两个Markov链模型通过节点空闲概率相互联系.在此模型基础上,本文详细分析了扩频增益、队列长度与最大允许重传次数等输入参数对网络吞吐量、平均延迟与丢包概率等性能尺度的影响,推导得出了BSAC协议的吞吐量极限.另外,本文还引入多数据包接收技术-延迟捕获技术,该项技术可以有效降低数据包冲突概率,相对于没有采用延迟捕获技术的BSAC协议,平均提高吞吐量29.1%,最大吞吐量提高20.8%,使网络性能接近于理论极限.     

公用无线局域网的负载均衡策略

无线局域网与GPRS结合而成的公用无线局域网,是一种覆盖全球的宽带移动通信网,负载均衡策略是其中的一项关键技术.本文首先提出基于接入控制器(AC)的集中式负载均衡策略(CLBAC)以提高网络安全性,然后提出分布式负载均衡策略(DLB):各用户在接入网络的时侯,首先采用虚拟的分布式协调功能(VDCF)预测各小区的实时负载,然后接入负载最轻的小区.与集中式负载均衡策略比较,分布式负载均衡策略在网络资源开销和安全性等方面具有明显优势.仿真结果表明:VDCF算法预测小区负载快捷准确.     

一种提高多速率WLAN公平性的MAC协议

DCF应用在多速率无线局域网中存在严重的不公平性：高速率站点占用信道的时间远小于低速率站点,只获得与低速率站点相同的吞吐量。该文利用区分服务的思想,提出接入时间公平的MDCF。MDCF通过为不同速率的站点设置不同的初始竞争窗口,来实现与发送速率成正比的接入概率,从而保证接入时间的公平性,理论分析和仿真结果都表明MDCF能够较大地提高多速率无线局域网中的时间公平性及吞吐量。     

5GHz无线LAN的OFDM技术和MAC协议分析

对两个工作在5GHz频段上的高速无线LAN标准——IEEE802.11a和HIPER-LAN2——进行比较,并就两者相似的物理层OFDM技术和不同的MAC子层协议进行详细分析。     

无线局域网MAC层QoS研究

在分析无线网协议提供QoS保证方面存在的问题的基础上，讨论了IEEE802．11e的两个新的策略：增强的分布式协调功能和混合协调功能。通过对受控竞争机制的分析．指出了IEEE802．11e仍存在的不足及未来的发展方向。     

A New MAC Protocol Ensuring the Multimedia Traffic QoS for CDMA Networks

This paper describes the CDMAC, a new Medium Access Control (MAC)protocol for multimedia traffic in CDMA wireless networks. Theprotocol intends to extract the maximum capacity and flexibilityout of the CDMA scheme and at the same time guarantee the expectedQoS of different service types. CDMAC is able to maintain QoSrequirements thanks to the shaping, policing and trafficdifferentiation performed by the scheduler. Moreover, an iterativealgorithm, applied at the beginning of each frame, is used to findthe optimal power vector for all mobiles present in the system,which maximize the system capacity. The basic constraint of thecapacity maximization process is that the BER QoS of eachconnection should be fulfilled. Finally a distributedimplementation, feasible in a practical scenario, is presented.     

QoS Routing for Mesh-Based Wireless LANs

Wireless LANs with their increased data rate become an attractive technology for connecting mobile users to the Internet. Efficient deployment of wireless LANs will require the ability to extend the wireless LANs coverage without the need to deploy a very large number of access points. Mesh-based wireless LANs are an attractive solution to this problem. These networks extend wireless LAN coverage by using each node in the network as a router, resulting in a multihop topology. In this paper we introduce a novel routing algorithm, wireless mesh routing (WMR), that provides quality-of-service (QoS) support and accounts for the characteristics of both infrastructure-based wireless LANs and ad hoc networks. The algorithm is validated using the OPNET modeler. The simulation results show that the mesh network using WMR protocol can provide QoS support and react dynamically to the network status changes with low control overheads. Using the proposed software architecture the proposed routing protocol can be implemented with any MAC protocol, resulting in easy implementation in existing wireless nodes.     

固定宽带无线接入LMDS的MAC协议与QoS

介绍了基于IP的固定宽带无线接入技术的MAC协议的原理,分析了MAC协议保证服务质量(QoS)的机制。     

A Centralized MAC Protocol for QoS Support in UWB-Based Wireless Networks

In this paper we introduce a novel MAC protocol that provides Quality of Service (QoS) support for multimedia traffic in UWB-based wireless local area networks. The proposed protocol allocates transmission opportunities to QoS and best effort traffic using a set of scheduling and resource control algorithms. The algorithms account for the UWB characteristics such as the co-existence of multiple simultaneous transmissions as well as the possibility of dynamically assigning the nodes' transmission rate and power. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol can provide QoS support while optimizing resource utilization. Yuechun Chu received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai University, China, in 1996 and M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from University of Science and Technology of China in 1999. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests include MAC protocol design for UWB-based networks, wireless multimedia applications, and architectures and protocols for wireless networks with QoS guarantees. Aura Ganz is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Multimedia Networks Laboratory at the ECE Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has experience in topics related to multimedia wireless networks, optical networks and ubiquitous computing. The research results are validated by a combination of analytical, simulation and prototyping tools. She has published a book “Multimedia Wireless Networks: Technologies, Standards and QoS” (Prentice Hall) and authored over one hundred and fifty peer reviewed publications. Dr. Ganz received her BSc, MSc and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from the Technion in Israel.     

无线局域网帧数据流量研究

无线局域网中的信道要比有线局域网信道复杂的多,运载其上的流量研究成为评估和了解无线局域网行为模式的关键。比较了有线和无线局域网在体系结构和协议机制上的差异,进而分析了由于这种差异所导致的IP层数据包流量和MAC层帧数据流量不同之处,提出了无线局域网流量研究中存在的问题,探讨了无线局域网帧数据流量的研究内容和方向。     

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

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. 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.     

A Dynamic Priority MAC Protocol for Time-Bounded Services in Wireless Networks

Wireless Local Area Networks have gained popularity at an unprecedented rate over the last few years. However, as the spectrum of applications they are called to support broadens, their inefficiency in meeting the diverse requirements of a wider range of applications becomes evident. Most existing access mechanisms cannot provide Quality-of-Service (QoS) assurances. Even those that are QoS aware can only provide relative service differentiation. In this work, we propose a dynamic priority medium access scheme to provide time-bounded services. By approximating an ideal Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduler, the proposed scheme can offer delay and delay jitter assurances while achieving high medium utilization. Analytical studies and simulation experiments document and confirm the positive characteristics of the proposed mechanism. Orestis Tsigkas received his Diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2002. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in the same department. His research interests include medium access, as well as quality-of-service provisioning. Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988 and the Diploma in mechanical-electrical engineering in 1979 from the same institution. She is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University engaged in teaching for the under- and post-graduate program in the areas of mobile communications and telecommunications networks. Her research interests are in the field of mobile and personal communications, satellite communications, multiple access systems, routing and traffic flow in networks and QoS studies for multimedia applications over the Internet. She is being involved with many national and international projects in these areas (Tempus, COST, Telematics,IST) and she has been chairing the European COST262 Action on “Spread Spectrum Systems and Techniques for Wired and Wireless Communications”. She has served as member of the TPC in many IEEE/IEE conferences and she has organized/chaired some conferences like, the “IST Mobile Summit 2002”, the 6th “International Symposium on Power Lines Communications-ISPLC2002”, the “International Conference on Communications-ICT1998” etc. She is a permanent reviewer for many IEEE/IEE journals. She has published about 80 papers in refereed journals and conferences. She has served as guest-editor on special issues as: “Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs): Standards, Research, Applications” in the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks and “Power Line Communications and Applications” in the International Journal on Communications Systems. She is a senior member of IEEE, currently chairing the joint IEEE VT&AES Chapter in Greece.     

无线局域网的室外应用

主要讨论如何在室外环境中应用无线局域网，以及应用中遇到的一些问题和注意事项。