Wireless token ring protocol-performance comparison with IEEE 802.11

Author

Ergen, Mustafa ; Lee, Duke ; Sengupta, Raja ; Varaiya, Pravin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2003

Firstpage

710

Abstract

The paper presents the performance advantage of wireless token ring protocol (WTRP) versus IEEE 802.11 in DCF mode. WTRP is a medium access control (MAC) protocol and is designed to provide quality of service in WLANs. WTRP supports guaranteed QoS in terms of bounded latency and reserved bandwidth which are crucial constraints of the real time applications and inapplicable in an IEEE 802.11 network. WTRP is a distributed MAC protocol and partial connection is enough for full connectivity. The stations take turn to transmit and are forced to suspend the transmission after having the medium for a specified amount of time. WTRP is robust against wireless medium imperfections. The DCF mode of IEEE 802.11, also a distributed MAC protocol, is based on contention among stations and is not homogeneous due to the existence of hidden terminals and random behavior. Consequently, QoS is not provided.

Keywords

access protocols; quality of service; wireless LAN; QoS; WLAN; distributed MAC protocol; distributed coordination function; medium access control protocol; quality of service; real time applications; wireless local area network; wireless token ring protocol; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Delay; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Robustness; Token networks; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communication, 2003. (ISCC 2003). Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1961-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2003.1214201

Filename

1214201