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ISBN 978-952-5726-09-1 (Print)<br />
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Networking and Network Security (ISNNS ’10)<br />
Jinggangshan, P. R. China, 2-4, April. 2010, pp.218-222<br />
An Adaptive Scheduling for QoS Enhancement<br />
Mechanism in IEEE 802.11 WLAN<br />
Aiyun Zhan, Aihan Yin, Yueli Jiao, and Qingmiao Zhang<br />
School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University<br />
Nanchang, China 330013<br />
E-mail: yinaihan@126.com<br />
Abstract-For the problem of QoS in the IEEE802.11DCF,<br />
proposed an enhanced adaptive scheduling distributed<br />
EASDCF mechanism. Through the largest contention<br />
window and retry times, this mechanism provides<br />
differentiated services and guarantees the real-time service<br />
priority access to the channel with higher probability.<br />
Besides, it provides a reliable guarantee for the packet drop<br />
rate sensitive service. Simulation results indicate that the<br />
classification method adopted by the EASDCF has a good<br />
effect, enhancing the overall throughput performance of the<br />
WLAN and making reasonable use of system resources.<br />
Index Terms-largest contention window; QoS; distributed<br />
scheduling mechanism; throughput; packet drop rate<br />
I. INTRODUCTION<br />
Wireless communication technology has brought us<br />
more and more convenient communication services.<br />
However, with the development of technology, the<br />
system performances could not meet the demand of<br />
requirements for the increasing services from us. As is<br />
well-known, the wireless channel is a limited resource, it<br />
is a problem needed to be resolved in MAC (Medium<br />
Access Control) layer that how to share and distribute the<br />
channel fairly, effectively and reliably. CSMA/CA<br />
(Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Back-off)<br />
mechanism, as the elementary access way in IEEE802.11<br />
protocol [1] , adapts to the change of station numbers and<br />
the communication traffic. Due to CSMA/CA lack of<br />
effective QoS (Quality of Service) mechanism, makes it<br />
hard to support the services with high requirements of<br />
delay performance [2] . A basic application of CSMA/CA<br />
is the IEEE802.11DCF (Distributed Coordination<br />
Function) mode. Based on DCF model, the paper<br />
analyzes the traditional back-off mechanisms of 802.11<br />
protocol and compares EDCF (Enhanced DCF) with<br />
frequently used DCF, then put forward a performanceenhanced<br />
mode---EASDCF (Enhanced Adaptive SDCF).<br />
In this way, we execute the network simulations under<br />
NS-2, whose results have certain guiding significance in<br />
the transmission of real time services, like voice in the<br />
wireless local area network.<br />
II. DCF AND EDCF ACCESS MODE<br />
DCF is the basic media access control mechanism of<br />
802.11, it adopts CSMA/CA and binary exponential<br />
back-off mechanism. DCF access mode is shown in<br />
figure 1. In the IEEE802.11 model, each station accesses<br />
channels through competition [3] . The initial size of<br />
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contention window is CWmin. When the transmission<br />
fails, it doubles its size and chooses another random<br />
back-off time in the new window. Otherwise, the<br />
contention window returns to minimum size CWmin<br />
directly. Checking again whether there are still data to be<br />
transmitted in the station, if so, after a period of DIFS<br />
(DCF Interframe Space), reenter the back-off waiting<br />
state again until it gets the authorization for media access<br />
[4] . The way which DCF adopted to allocate channels is<br />
simple and effective. Particularly when collisions<br />
increase, it can enlarge CW (Contention Window)<br />
promptly. The larger the contention window is, the more<br />
powerful the system is to solve collisions.<br />
Figure 1 Basic DCF access model<br />
EDCF model is the improvement of MAC protocol<br />
proposed by IEEE802.11e work group, and the program<br />
introduced the Enhanced Distributed Coordination<br />
Function [5] . The support of QoS in the EDCF is realized<br />
by the introduction of TC (Traffic Categories).The<br />
priority of channel access is differentiated by the QoS<br />
parameters of TC. After detecting the channel idle time<br />
reaches an AIFS (Arbitration InterFrame Space), the<br />
mobile station starts back-off. The relationship between<br />
various IFS which defined by EDCF is shown in figure 2.<br />
AIFS is at least a DIFS time. The back-off counter range<br />
is [0, CW-1].<br />
Figure 2 EDCF access model