A Multirate Adaptive Protocol for IEEE 802.11

Author

Huang, Qing-yan ; Xi, Yong ; Ji-bo Wei ; Yong, Ting

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha

fYear

2006

fDate

27-30 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A new rate adaptation protocol EARF (enhanced ARF) is proposed for IEEE 802.11 based on ACK frame statistical information. The main idea is to assign each transmission rate a unique success threshold, which is controlled by a delay factor to quantify the responsiveness of a link adaptation, and dynamically updated along with channel condition. The proposed protocol needs no modification to the current IEEE 802.11 standard and so can be implemented easily by sq/hvare. The simulation shows that EARF outperforms the existing ACK-based protocols such as ARF and ARF3-10 in most channel conditions.

Keywords

delays; error statistics; protocols; wireless LAN; ACK frame statistical information; BER; IEEE 802.11; channel state information; delay factor; enhanced ARF; link adaptation; multirate adaptive protocol; transmission rate; Bit error rate; Delay; Fading; Feeds; Media Access Protocol; Software standards; Statistics; Telecommunication control; Time-varying channels; Wireless networks; IEEE 802.11; MAC protocol; adaptive; multirate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology, 2006. ICCT '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0800-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0801-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2006.342001

Filename

4146602