Evolution of WLANs towards VoIP traffic and higher throughputs

Nidhi Hegde

1st International ICST Conference on Access Networks

Research Article

Evolution of WLANs towards VoIP traffic and higher throughputs

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1189355.1189364,
    author={Nidhi Hegde},
    title={Evolution of WLANs towards VoIP traffic and higher throughputs},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Access Networks},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={ACCESSNETS},
    year={2006},
    month={9},
    keywords={Performance Design Algorithms},
    doi={10.1145/1189355.1189364}
}

Nidhi Hegde
Year: 2006
Evolution of WLANs towards VoIP traffic and higher throughputs
ACCESSNETS
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1189355.1189364

Nidhi Hegde¹

1: France Telecom R & D, 38-40 rue du general Leclerc, 92794 Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France.

Abstract

As WLANs have become more popular, limitations in the original design of WLAN have also become more evident. The MAC protocol of WLAN was designed to reduce transmission collisions in a distributed access environment. In many cases however, the user-level performance is severely limited, not only for data transfers, but voice applications as well. We present an overview of major shortcomings of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol and review proposed solutions. We propose a novel and implicit scheme to improve the voice capacity of WLANs, and present results on performance metrics, based on analytical models.

Keywords: Performance Design Algorithms

Published: 2006-09-06
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1189355.1189364