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A New MAC Protocol with Pseudo-TDMA Behavior for Supporting Quality of Service in 802.11 Wireless LANs
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume 2006, Article number: 065836 (2006)
Abstract
A new medium access control (MAC) protocol is proposed for quality-of-service (QoS) support in wireless local area networks (WLAN). The protocol is an alternative to the recent enhancement 802.11e. A new priority policy provides the system with better performance by simulating time division multiple access (TDMA) functionality. Collisions are reduced and starvation of low-priority classes is prevented by a distributed admission control algorithm. The model performance is found analytically extending previous work on this matter. The results show that a better organization of resources is achieved through this scheme. Throughput analysis is verified with OPNET simulations.
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Paschos, S.G., Papapanagiotou, I., Kotsopoulos, S.A. et al. A New MAC Protocol with Pseudo-TDMA Behavior for Supporting Quality of Service in 802.11 Wireless LANs. J Wireless Com Network 2006, 065836 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/WCN/2006/65836
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