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Publication date | 2004 |
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Host publication | Communications, 2004 IEEE International Conference on |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 3470-3475 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (print) | 0780385330 |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Event | IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004) - Paris Duration: 20/06/2004 → 24/06/2004 |
Conference | IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004) |
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City | Paris |
Period | 20/06/04 → 24/06/04 |
Conference | IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004) |
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City | Paris |
Period | 20/06/04 → 24/06/04 |
The emerging widespread use of real-time multimedia applications over wireless networks makes the support of Quality of Service (QoS) a key problem. In this paper, we focus on QoS support mechanisms for IEEE 802.11 Wireless ad-hoc networks. First, we review limitations of the upcommig IEEE 802.11e Enhanced DCF (EDCF) and other enhanced MAC schemes that have been proposed to support QoS for 802.11 ad-hoc networks. Then, we describe a new scheme called adaptive fair EDCF that extends EDCF, by increasing the contention window during deferring periods when the channel is busy, and by using an adaptive fast backoff mechanism when the channel is idle. Our scheme computes an adaptive backoff threshold for each priority level by taking into account the channel load. The new scheme significantly improves the quality of multimedia applications. Moreover, it increases the overall throughput obtained both in medium and high load cases. Simulation results show that our new scheme outperforms EDCF and other enhanced schemes. Finally, we show that the adaptive fair EDCF scheme achieves a high degree of fairness among applications of the same priority level.