Title :
Dwell adaptive fragmentation: how to cope with short dwells required by multimedia wireless LANs
Author :
Tourrilhes, Jean
Author_Institution :
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper studies the impact on CSMA/CA traffic of a reduction of the dwell size, a fundamental parameter of some wireless LANs. First, we explain why we want to reduce the dwell size and what are the consequences. Then, we present some ways to overcome the overhead of short dwell, mostly based on fragmentation. We finish by some exhaustive simulations of the short dwell size impact and variations, and the way those fragmentation schemes improve the network performance
Keywords :
access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; diversity reception; multimedia communication; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; CSMA/CA traffic; dwell adaptive fragmentation; dwell size reduction; frequency diversity; multimedia wireless LAN; network performance; short dwell size; short dwells overhead; simulations; transmission latency reduction; Delay; Frequency diversity; Laboratories; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Milling machines; Roads; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2000. GLOBECOM '00. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6451-1
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2000.891681
