IEEE 802.11 has become the standard in wireless LAN. Originally, 802.11 is designed for the best-effort services only. To support the increasing demand of delay-sensitive applications, IEEE 802.11 Task Group E is developing a QoS-aware MAC protocol, EDCF, for differentiated services. However, when the network becomes congested, there exists unexpected packet delay due to collisions and retransmissions. This thesis proposes a dynamic contention control (DCC) scheme to reduce packet delay and increase the percentage of packets arriving in time. DCC estimates per-hop delay, denoted as Mrtt, and end-to-end delay, denoted as Sigma_t, based on either the received MAC-layer ACK or the control packets of a reactive routing protocol. Then, Mrtt and Sigma_t are used to dynamically adjust the associated contention window for each priority. Besides, when a frame is retransmitted, the backoff time is determined according to the remaining end-to-end delay instead of a uniformly distributed random number. For the propose of evaluation, we perform simulations on the well-known network simulator, NS-2. DCC is compared with the EDCF and one previously proposed scheme, AEDCF. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of DCC.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728105-162945 |
| Date | 28 July 2005 |
| Creators | Chiu, Jen-Hung |
| Contributors | Tsung-Chuan Huang, Tsang-Ling Sheu, Rung-Hung Gau, Wei-Kuang Lai |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728105-162945 |
| Rights | restricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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