A call admission and rate control scheme for multimedia support over IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs |
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Authors: | Hongqiang Zhai Xiang Chen Yuguang Fang |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida, P.O.Box 116130, Gainesville, FL, 32611 |
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Abstract: | Quality of service (QoS) support for multimedia services in the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN is an important issue for such WLANs
to become a viable wireless access to the Internet. In this paper, we endeavor to propose a practical scheme to achieve this
goal without changing the channel access mechanism. To this end, a novel call admission and rate control (CARC) scheme is
proposed. The key idea of this scheme is to regulate the arriving traffic of the WLAN such that the network can work at an
optimal point. We first show that the channel busyness ratio is a good indicator of the network status in the sense that it
is easy to obtain and can accurately and timely represent channel utilization. Then we propose two algorithms based on the
channel busyness ratio. The call admission control algorithm is used to regulate the admission of real-time or streaming traffic
and the rate control algorithm to control the transmission rate of best effort traffic. As a result, the real-time or streaming
traffic is supported with statistical QoS guarantees and the best effort traffic can fully utilize the residual channel capacity
left by the real-time and streaming traffic. In addition, the rate control algorithm itself provides a solution that could
be used above the media access mechanism to approach the maximal theoretical channel utilization. A comprehensive simulation
study in ns-2 has verified the performance of our proposed CARC scheme, showing that the original 802.11 DCF protocol can
statically support strict QoS requirements, such as those required by voice over IP or streaming video, and at the same time,
achieve a high channel utilization.
Hongqiang Zhai received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in July 1999 and January
2002 respectively. He worked as a research intern in Bell Labs Research China from June 2001 to December 2001, and in Microsoft
Research Asia from January 2002 to July 2002. Currently he is pursuing the PhD degree in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Florida. He is a student member of IEEE.
Xiang Chen received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1997
and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville,
in 2005. He is currently a Senior Research Engineer at Motorola Labs, Arlington Heights, IL. His research interests include
resource management, medium access control, and quality of service (QoS) in wireless networks. He is a Member of Tau Beta
Pi and a student member of IEEE.
Yuguang Fang received a Ph.D degree in Systems and Control Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in January 1994, and a Ph.D
degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in May 1997.
From June 1997 to July 1998, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at the University
of Texas at Dallas. From July 1998 to May 2000, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. In May 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at University of Florida where he got the early promotion with tenure in August 2003 and has been an Associate Professor since
then. He has published over one hundred (100) papers in refereed professional journals and conferences. He received the National
Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award in 2001 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2002.
He is currently serving as an Editor for many journals including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and ACM Wireless Networks. He is also actively participating
in conference organization such as the Program Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2005, Program Co-Chair for the Global Internet
and Next Generation Networks Symposium in IEEE Globecom’2004 and the Program Vice Chair for 2000 IEEE Wireless Communications
and Networking Conference (WCNC’2000). |
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Keywords: | IEEE 802 11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) Medium Access Control (MAC) Quality of Service Call admission control |
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