Throughput guarantees for multi-priority traffic in ad hoc networks

In this paper, we present MPARC (Multi-Priority Admission and Rate Control), a novel joint admission control and rate policing protocol for multi-priority ad hoc networks. MPARC is based on our novel bandwidth allocation model, which captures the bandwidth allocation for saturated, unsaturated and semi-saturated networks. MPARC guarantees that the throughput of admitted realtime flows will not decrease due to later arriving realtime flows with equal or lower priorities or due to best effort flows. MPARC achieves this goal by performing accurate admission control on every newly arriving realtime flow and appropriate rate policing on all best effort traffic. Through simulation, we demonstrate that MPARC has better performance than existing approaches.     

LXI总线技术综述

文章论述了LXI总线诞生的背景及其主要特点,对其关键的仪器同步和IVI技术作了深入分析,并对各种总线的发展现状和性能作了分析.     

A Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

In multihop wireless ad hoc networks, it is important that all mobile hosts are synchronized. Synchronization is necessary for power management and for frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) operations. IEEE 802.11 standards specify a clock synchronization protocol but this protocol suffers from the scalability problem due to its inefficiency contention mechanism. In this paper, we propose an automatic self-time-correcting procedure (ASP) to achieve clock synchronization in a multihop environment. Our ASP has two features. First, a faster host has higher priority to send its timing information out than a slower one. Second, after collecting enough timing information, a slower host can synchronize to the faster one by self-correcting its timer periodically (which makes it becoming a faster host). Simulation results show that our ASP decreases 60% the average maximum clock drift as compared to the IEEE 802.11 and reduces 99% the number of asynchronism in a large-scale multihop wireless ad hoc networks.     

Design of an enhanced access point to optimize TCP performance in Wi-Fi hotspot networks

In the last years, the number of Wi-Fi hotspots at public venues has undergone a substantial growth, promoting the WLAN technologies as the ubiquitous solution to provide high-speed wireless connectivity in public areas. However, the adoption of a random access CSMA-based paradigm for the 802.11 MAC protocol makes difficult to ensure high throughput and a fair allocation of radio resources in 802.11-based WLANs. In this paper we evaluate extensively via simulations the interaction between the flow control mechanisms implemented at the TCP layer and the contention avoidance techniques used at the 802.11 MAC layer. We conducted our study considering initially M wireless stations performing downloads from the Internet. From our results, we observed that the TCP downlink throughput is not limited by the collision events, but by the inability of the MAC protocol to assign a higher chance of accessing the channel to the base station. We propose a simple and easy to implement modification of the base station’s behavior with the purpose of increasing the TCP throughput reducing useless MAC protocol overheads. With our scheme, the base station is allowed to transmit periodically bursts of data frames towards the mobile hosts. We design a resource allocation protocol aimed at maximizing the success probability of the uplink transmissions by dynamically adapting the burst length to the collision probability estimated by the base station. By its design, our scheme is also beneficial to achieve a fairer allocation of the channel bandwidth among the downlink and uplink flows, and among TCP and UDP flows. Simulation results confirm both the improvement in the TCP downlink throughput and the reduction of system unfairness.     

基于OFDM系统的多业务资源调度算法研究

在802．16标准中，四种QoS等级的区分对OFDM的资源调度提出了更高的要求。文章在比例公平算法的基础上，提出了一种结合考虑QoS等级的动态资源调度算法，在满足不同业务质量的基础上，可以更加有效地利用系统资源。     

移动WiMAX——引人瞩目的宽带无线接入技术

首先对目前宽带无线接入领域的热点技术wiMAX的协议体系、结构模型进行了介绍，然后分析了802．16e-2005标准相对于802．16—2004标准的增强特性。最后，总结了移动wiMAX的技术优势，以及国内外商用现状及发展趋势。     

基于IEEE802.16e的WiMAX移动性管理

IEEE802.16e标准在继承802.16d固定宽带无线接入技术优点的基础上,增加了对移动性的支持。文中介绍了802.16e标准的协议模型,给出了以802.16e为基础的宽带无线城域网技术WiMAX的网络架构;主要针对802.16e的移动性管理进行了探讨,重点讨论了ASN内切换和ASN间切换的过程。     

Performance analysis of differentiated QoS in IEEE 802.11e WLANs

This paper proposes a multi‐dimensional Markov model to analyse the performance of the IEEE 802.11e EDCF MAC protocol. Based on this model, we present extensive performance evaluation in terms of throughput, throughput ratios, and access delay of flows of distinct priorities under RTS/CTS mode. We also provide quantitative analysis of the impact of prioritized parameters, i.e. Arbitration InterFrame Space (AIFS), Contention Window (CW) on Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation. The accuracy of the proposed model is verified by means of comparing the numerical results obtained from both analytical model and simulations. Our research can be used as a guideline for the prediction of how flows belonging to a certain Traffic Category (TC) perform with their TC‐specific parameters, as well as designing EDCF‐based WLANs and tuning the parameters to achieve the desirable differentiated QoS objectives. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

IEEE 802.11i标准与WLAN安全性分析

详细分析了WLAN(无线局域网)的最新安全标准IEEE 802.11i,包括标准体系结构、接入认证和访问控制以及加密机制;同时,分析了该标准的网络认证与授权、密钥生成与管理和数据加密机制;最后指出了WLAN安全领域需要进一步研究的课题及802.11i目前仍存在的问题.     

WiMAX系统中QoS机制研究

文章分析了WiMAX系统QoS机制的主要内容:业务流管理、QoS保证算法,探讨了QoS机制对主动授权、实时查询、非实时查询和尽力而为等数据业务的支持.为了让不同业务的QoS得到保证,文章重点探讨了基于信道状态的分组调度算法(CSDPS)、基于业务类型排队(CBQ)的CSDPS调度算法和通用处理器共享策略,并给出了相应的算法模型.