An Improved Polling Scheme for PCF MAC Protocol

Author

Liu, Qianlin ; Zhao, Dongfeng ; Ding, Hongwei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Yunnan Univ., Kunming, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The design of media access control (MAC) protocol that can efficiently support the real-time applications in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) requires that the MAC layer provide strict delay guarantees for sensitive traffic, the Point Coordination Function (PCF) with Round Robin (RR) polling scheme has been included in IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol to achieve this objective. This paper uses two-level-polling scheme to improve the performance of RR scheme, and the closed form expressions for the mean cyclic period (MCP), the mean queue length (MQL) and the mean waiting time (MWT) of the scheme have been obtained, the analytical results are also verified through extensive computer simulations. The comparison results show that the efficiency as well as impartiality of proposed scheme is better than that of the RR scheme.

Keywords

access protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol; MCP; MQL; MWT; PCF; PCF MAC Protocol; RR polling scheme; WLAN; computer simulations; mean cyclic period; mean queue length; mean waiting time; media access control protocol; point coordination function; round robin polling scheme; wireless local area networks; Delay; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Real time systems; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040385

Filename

6040385