Achieving weighted fairness for wireless multimedia services

Author

Shih, Chih-Yung ; Cheng, Ray-Guang ; Chang, Chung-Ju

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

2381

Abstract

It is important to provide differentiated quality of services (QoSs) for multimedia services over wireless LAN (WLAN). Fairness is one of the key issues for QoS supporting. This paper proposes a method to achieve weighted fairness for two classes of service operating under the enhanced distributed coordinator function (EDCF) mode of 802.11e. A queueing model is adopted to analyze the behavior of the two classes. The analytical results were verified by computer simulation. Numerical results showed that the weighted goals are easily achieved by adjusting both the arbitration inter frame space (AIFS) and the contention window (CW).

Keywords

multimedia communication; quality of service; queueing theory; wireless LAN; 802.11e; AIFS; CW; EDCF; QoS; WLAN; arbitration inter frame space; contention window; differentiated quality of service; enhanced distributed coordinator function; multimedia service; queueing model; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Computer simulation; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Queueing analysis; Scheduling algorithm; Space stations; Throughput; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7954-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2003.1285956

Filename

1285956