An effective polling MAC scheme for IEEE 802.11e

Author

Son, Jungbo ; Choi, Hosuk ; Park, Sin-Chong

Author_Institution

Syst. Integration Technol. Inst., Inf. & Commun. Univ., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

296

Abstract

In medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless local area networks (WLANs), the round-robin scheme is the general polling scheme. A major drawback of this scheme is that it is inefficient when only a small number of stations have packets to transmit. This inefficiency is caused by polling of stations that have no packets to transmit. This paper proposes an effective and simple polling scheme to reduce the number of polling times for station with no packets to transmit. Our proposed scheme uses traffic characteristics and the number of successive polling times for a station with packets to transmit. Through the use of these values, the period of polling for a station can be adaptively changed. Therefore, this method improves the inefficiency of the polling for stations with no packets to transmit.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; packet switching; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11e; WLAN; effective polling MAC scheme; medium access control protocols; polling inefficiency; polling period; polling times; round-robin general polling scheme; station packet transmission; stations polling scheme; successive polling times; traffic characteristic; wireless local area networks; Access protocols; Degradation; Delay effects; Electronic mail; Ethernet networks; Media Access Protocol; OFDM; Quality of service; Standardization; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Information Technology, 2004. ISCIT 2004. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8593-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIT.2004.1412857

Filename

1412857