A link adaptation strategy for QoS support in IEEE 802.11e-based WLANs

Author

Bandinelli, Matteo ; Chifi, F. ; Fantacci, Romano ; Tarchi, Daniele ; Vannuccini, Gianluca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Univ. of Florence, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

13-17 March 2005

Firstpage

120

Abstract

Wireless local area networks represent one of the most interesting technological improvements in the last period. Many people are using WLAN commonly just to connect to the Internet or for e-mail downloading. WLAN do not offer at the moment a satisfactory QoS support for multimedia traffic. The aims of the IEEE 802.11e standard is to develop some schemes for supporting multimedia traffic in an in-home environment. On the other hand, in the last few years link adaptation has gained a lot of attention due to its improvement to the channel occupancy and capacity optimization. In this paper a link adaptation algorithm suitable for using in a WLAN, based on the IEEE 802.11e draft, with QoS support is proposed.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; channel capacity; indoor radio; mobile computing; multimedia communication; optimisation; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11e standard; Internet; MAC protocol; QoS support; WLAN; capacity optimization; channel occupancy; e-mail downloading; in-home environment; link adaptation; multimedia traffic; wireless local area networks; Consumer electronics; Electronic mail; Intelligent networks; Joining IEEE; Physical layer; Quality of service; Robustness; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2005 IEEE

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8966-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2005.1424486

Filename

1424486