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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

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