Price-based channel time allocation in wireless LANs

Author

Shah, Samarth H. ; Nahrstedt, Klara

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

23-24 March 2004

Firstpage

511

Lastpage

517

Abstract

In access-point based wireless networks employing the IEEE 802.11 protocol in DCF mode, without bandwidth management and rate control, users pump data into the network as fast as it is generated. This results in a loss of QoS for the user and performance degradation of the network. There is a need for bandwidth allocation and for users to cooperatively control their rates based on the allocated bandwidth. We use price as a signal for bandwidth allocation in wireless hot spot networks. We allocate more bandwidth to users that pay more. At the same time, we also aim to maximize channel utilization and increase mean satisfaction across all the users.

Keywords

IEEE standards; bandwidth allocation; quality of service; telecommunication channels; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 protocol; QoS; bandwidth allocation; bandwidth management; price-based channel time allocation; wireless LAN; wireless hot spot network; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Degradation; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Local area networks; Scheduling; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2004. Proceedings. 24th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2087-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2004.1284081

Filename

1284081