Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:31:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelus Guirardello.pdf: 2153688 bytes, checksum: be50be16f89d021ebb7cf89fb146485c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-21 / This work presents a proposal of politic that prioritize the access to the wireless medium, considering environment conditions. The QoS policy considers the propagation conditions, through the analyze of the signal to noise ratio and type of service. The prioritization proposal considers each access category (AC) of the 802.11e standard, using queues with different priorities. The proposal uses the parameters specified by the 802.11e, through a dedicated firmware. This prioritization enables a new strategy for the QoS policy, for example to provide the station with the highest rate of transmission a biggest probability to access the medium. This work presents an experimental approach, through a channel emulator. The tests consider three different scenarios to evaluate the performance of the original MAC and the performance of queue priority, considering the effects of the parameters CWmin and AIFSN. The experiments developed in the work demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed policy. / Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta de pol?tica que priorize o acesso sem fio ao meio, considerando as condi??es do ambiente. A pol?tica de QoS considera as condi??es de propaga??o, atrav?s da an?lise da rela??o sinal ru?do e do tipo de servi?o. A prioriza??o proposta considera o acesso cada categoria (AC), do padr?o 802.11e, utilizando filas com diferentes prioridades. A proposta utiliza os par?metros definidos pela 802.11e, atrav?s de um firmware dedicado. Essa prioriza??o possibilita uma nova estrat?gia para a pol?tica de QoS, por exemplo, para fornecer a uma esta??o com taxa mais alta maior probabilidade de acesso ao meio. Este trabalho apresenta uma abordagem experimental, atrav?s de um emulador de canal. Os testes consideram tr?s cen?rios diferentes para avaliar o desempenho da MAC original e do desempenho da prioriza??o de fila proposta, considerando os efeitos dos par?metros CWmin e AIFSN. As experi?ncias desenvolvidas no ?mbito do trabalho demonstram a efic?cia da pol?tica proposta.

This master thesis includes a short review of the structure of WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) technologies 802.11a/b/g, the description of their physical interface and the description of the basic medium access control mechanisms implementing the PCF (Point Coordination Function) and DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) methods. I mainly focused on the detailed evaluation the new 802.11e standard which was designed to efficiently support real-time services in wireless environment. To provide QoS (Quality of Service) support, this standard specifies the EDCA (Ehanced Distributed Channel Access) and HCF (Hybrid Coordination Function) medium access control methods for the shared wireless environment. The next chapter of my work is devoted to the verification of the theoretical results in OPNET Modeler simulation environment. I studied in details the WLAN model available in OPNET Modeler, the effect of data-flow classification into separate categories and the configuration of several access method parameters. Next, I created my own WLAN model according to the 802.11e standard. This model contains four applications two of them with real-time requirements. The model is divided into several scenarios, each focusing on different aspects of wireless network technologies like QoS support and it´s dependency on the number of clients, mobility of wireless terminals and comparison of the 802.11a/b/g and the 802.11e technology.