A generalized saturation throughput analysis for IEEE 802.11e contention-based MAC

abstract

• The main service differentiation mechanism introduced by the IEEE 802.11e standard is described in terms of prioritized contention access. Analyzing the performance and service differentiation ability of each of the priority features of the 802.11e standard is an important task, and considerable research effort has recently been dedicated to this subject. In this article, we present a generalized and comprehensive analysis of the prioritized access scheme of the 802.11e standard. Our model corrects and extends the existing models and considers all priority features of the 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. We consider an arbitrary number of priority levels, and provide a detailed parametric analysis of the MAC behavior for the main priority parameters of inter frame spacing, contention window size, and transmission opportunity. We validate the accuracy of our analysis with simulation experiments. 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

authors

• Alnuweiri, Hussein

published proceedings

• WIRELESS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

• Fallah, Y. P., El-Housseini, S., & Alnuweiri, H.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Fallah, Yaser Pourmohammadi||El-Housseini, Samer||Alnuweiri, Hussein

publication date

• October 2008

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

keywords

• Edca
• Ieee 802.11e
• Mac
• Queuing Models
• Saturation Throughput
• Wireless Lan

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s11277-008-9457-6

start page

• 235

end page

• 245

volume

• 47

issue

• 2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1007%2Fs11277-008-9457-6