This paper proposes a new channel access algorithm based on channel occupancy time （COT） fairness to guarantee fairness and improve the aggregate throughput of 802.11b multi-rate WLANs. In the algorithm, the COT is ...This paper proposes a new channel access algorithm based on channel occupancy time （COT） fairness to guarantee fairness and improve the aggregate throughput of 802.11b multi-rate WLANs. In the algorithm, the COT is used as fairness index to analyze the fairness of WLANs instead of the channel access probability （CAP） used in the distributed coordination function （DCF）. The standard COT is given by access point （AP） and broadcasted to all wireless stations. The AP and wireless stations in the WLAN can achieve COT-based fairness by adjusting their packet length, sending the multiple back-to-back packets at one time, or giving up an opportunity to access the channel. Analysis and simulations show that our algorithm can provide COT-fairness. Compared with the CAP-based algorithm, the proposed algorithm leads to improvements in aggregate throughput of IEEE 802. lib multi-rate WLANs.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60472078 and No.90604013) .
文摘This paper proposes a new channel access algorithm based on channel occupancy time （COT） fairness to guarantee fairness and improve the aggregate throughput of 802.11b multi-rate WLANs. In the algorithm, the COT is used as fairness index to analyze the fairness of WLANs instead of the channel access probability （CAP） used in the distributed coordination function （DCF）. The standard COT is given by access point （AP） and broadcasted to all wireless stations. The AP and wireless stations in the WLAN can achieve COT-based fairness by adjusting their packet length, sending the multiple back-to-back packets at one time, or giving up an opportunity to access the channel. Analysis and simulations show that our algorithm can provide COT-fairness. Compared with the CAP-based algorithm, the proposed algorithm leads to improvements in aggregate throughput of IEEE 802. lib multi-rate WLANs.
文摘为了提高W PAN应用环境下IEEE802.11b的吞吐量,首先分析IEEE802.11b DCF协议应用时的数据包传输时序,得到IEEE802.11b系统的吞吐量性能与包长及包错误概率的关系,然后对W PAN干扰网络存在时包错误概率与PLCP服务数据单元(PSDU,PLCP service data u-nit)值之间的关系进行建模.在理论上证明了在一定的W PAN干扰强度下,IEEE802.11b系统存在一个最佳的数据包长度,可以使得系统的吞吐量最大.在此基础上提出了W PAN干扰网络存在时的自适应包长方案.仿真结果表明,所提方案可以有效地提高网络吞吐量.
