Robust superpoll protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Author

Ganz, Zvi ; Phonphoem, Anan ; Ganz, Z.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

Firstpage

570

Abstract

As wireless local area networks (WLANs) are rapidly deployed to expand the field of wireless products in military settings, the provision of robust and efficient communication in the face of noisy environments will be mandatory. Such design needs to take into consideration the WLANs limited bandwidth and high error rates. We introduce the concept of super polling which can be implemented within the IEEE 802.11 Point Coordination Function (PCF) media access control scheme. We notice a dramatic throughput increase (up to 85%) when compared with the single poll mechanism used in IEEE 802.11 PCF. The throughput increase is measured as a function of the channel noise, the superpoll overhead per data packet and the packet size

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; noise; packet radio networks; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; Point Coordination Function; bandwidth; channel noise; high error rates; media access control; military communications; noisy environments; overhead per data packet; packet size; robust superpoll protocol; single poll mechanism; throughput; wireless local area networks; wireless products; Bandwidth; Error analysis; Media Access Protocol; Military communication; Noise measurement; Robustness; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1998. MILCOM 98. Proceedings., IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4506-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1998.722192

Filename

722192