Performance comparison of IEEE 802.11, and ETSI HIPERLAN type 1 under influence of burst noise channel

Author

Hadzi-Velkov, Zoran ; Spasenovski, Boris

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1415

Abstract

We have compared different performance measures of the two standardized WLANs, IEEE 802.11 and ETSI HIPERLAN type 1. Two essential performance-limitation factors have been considered: the BER of the fading air medium and the number of stations in the ad-hoc network. Regarding the HIPERLAN 1, most of the performance measures are insensitive to the number of stations due to the more sophisticated but complex EY-NPMA MAC protocol. However, its high overhead redundancy causes great throughput degradation as the BER is increased. The relatively simple and low overhead CSMA/CD protocol in the IEEE 802.11 suffers from many collisions at higher loads, producing high sensitiveness to the number of stations

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; burst noise; code division multiple access; error statistics; fading channels; performance evaluation; standardisation; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; BER; CSMA/CD protocol; ETSI HIPERLAN type 1; EY-NPMA MAC protocol; IEEE 802.11; ad-hoc network; burst noise channel; fading air medium; high overhead redundancy; performance comparison; performance measures; performance-limitation factors; standardized WLAN; stations; throughput degradation; traffic model; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Fading; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Quality of service; Telecommunication standards; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6596-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2000.904839

Filename

904839