A bandwidth allocation/sharing/extension protocol for multimedia over IEEE 802.11 ad hoc wireless LANs

Author

Sheu, Shiann-Tsong ; Sheu, Tzu-Fang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tamkang Univ., Tamsui, Taiwan

Volume

19

Issue

10

fYear

2001

fDate

10/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2065

Lastpage

2080

Abstract

We propose a novel bandwidth allocation/sharing/extension (DBASE) protocol to support both asynchronous traffic and multimedia traffic with the characteristics of variable bit rate (VBR) and constant bit rate (CBR) over IEEE 802.11 ad hoc wireless local area networks. The overall quality of service (QoS) will be guaranteed by DBASE. The designed DBASE protocol will reserve bandwidth for real-time stations based on a fair and efficient allocation. Besides, the proposed DBASE is still compliant with the IEEE 802.11 standard. The performance of DBASE is evaluated by analysis and simulations. Simulations show that the DBASE is able to provide almost 90% channel utilization and low packet loss due to delay expiry for real-time multimedia services

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; bandwidth allocation; delays; local area networks; multimedia communication; packet radio networks; quality of service; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; CBR; DBASE protocol; IEEE 802.11 ad hoc wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 standard; MAC protocol; QoS; VBR; asynchronous traffic; bandwidth allocation/sharing/extension protocol; bandwidth reservation; channel utilization; constant bit rate; delay expiry; efficient allocation; fair allocation; low packet loss; multimedia traffic; performance evaluation; quality of service; real-time multimedia services; real-time stations; simulations; variable bit rate; wireless local area networks; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Channel allocation; Delay; Performance analysis; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.957320

Filename

957320