2nd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

Research Article

Voice capacity analysis of WLAN with unbalanced traffic

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/QSHINE.2005.64,
        author={ Lin  Cai and Xuemin  Shen and Yang  Xiao  and J.W.  Mark},
        title={Voice capacity analysis of WLAN with unbalanced traffic},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2005},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/QSHINE.2005.64}
    }
    
  • Lin Cai
    Xuemin Shen
    Yang Xiao
    J.W. Mark
    Year: 2005
    Voice capacity analysis of WLAN with unbalanced traffic
    QSHINE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/QSHINE.2005.64
Lin Cai1, Xuemin Shen1, Yang Xiao 1, J.W. Mark1
  • 1: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont.

Abstract

We evaluate the performance of voice transmission over a single-AP WLAN analytically and via simulation. Given the parameters of the medium access control protocol and different voice codecs, the voice capacity of the WLAN, in terms of the maximum number of voice connections that can be supported by the WLAN with satisfactory user-perceived quality, is obtained. Our analysis is applicable for unsaturated-station scenarios, and considers the practical issue induced by the unbalanced traffic. Extensive simulations have been performed to validate the analytical results