A Frame Traffic Control Algorithm for IEEE802.11 WLAN

Author

Liu, Chuang ; Ge, Xiaohu ; Xiang, Lin ; Cao, Chengqian ; Zhang, Ke

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

479

Lastpage

483

Abstract

In this paper we propose a frame traffic control algorithm in the media access control (MAC) layer for IEEE802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs), namely the Adaptive Frame Size Proportion Optimization (AFSPO) algorithm. The algorithm adaptively adjusts the sending frame size of each station in the network based on the real-time proportion of data frames, to weaken the self-similar characteristics of frame traffic in the network, and to improve the network performance by decreasing collisions and relieving congestion. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is effective in increasing the data frame bit delivery ratio when the total throughput in the link remains the same.

Keywords

optimisation; telecommunication control; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; AFSPO; IEEE802.11 WLAN; MAC; adaptive frame size proportion optimization; frame traffic control algorithm; media access control; wireless local area networks; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Real time systems; Throughput; Traffic control; Wireless LAN; WLAN; frame traffic control; self similarity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2010 IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on & Int'l Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom)

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9779-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4331-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GreenCom-CPSCom.2010.153

Filename

5724873