Introducing service differentiation into IEEE 802.11

Author

Aad, Imad ; Castelluccia, Claude

Author_Institution

Inst. Nat. de Recherche en Inf. et Autom., Montbonnot St. Martin, France

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

438

Lastpage

443

Abstract

The IETF is currently working on service differentiation for the Internet. However service differentiation at the IP layer is useless without support of lower layers. This support is even more critical in wireless environments because of the dynamism of the channel conditions and of the network topology. We present a service differentiation support for the IEEE 802.11. The idea is to scale the contention window according to the priority of each flow or user. Preliminary simulation results are shown when using this mechanism with TCP and UDP

Keywords

IEEE standards; Internet; access protocols; open systems; packet radio networks; quality of service; telecommunication standards; transport protocols; CSMA; IEEE 802.11; IETF; IP layer; Internet; MAC protocol; OSI reference model; QoS; TCP; UDP; channel conditions; contention window scaling; medium access control; network topology; service differentiation; simulation results; wireless environments; Bandwidth; Data communication; Delay; Mobile communication; Physical layer; Protocols; Quality of service; Topology; Web and internet services; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2000. Proceedings. ISCC 2000. Fifth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Antibes-Juan les Pins

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0722-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2000.860677

Filename

860677