Provisioning of parameterized quality of service in 802.11e based wireless mesh networks

Xiaowen Chu*

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Abstract

There has been a growing interest in the use of wireless mesh networks. Today's wireless technology enables very high data rate up to hundreds of Megabits per second, which creates the high demand of supporting real-time multimedia applications over wireless mesh networks. Hence it is imperative to support quality of service (QoS) in wireless mesh networks. In this paper, we design a framework to provide parameterized QoS in 802.11e based wireless mesh networks. Our framework consists of admission control algorithms and scheduling algorithms, which aim at supporting constant bit-rate (CBR) traffic flows, as well as variable bit-rate (VBR) traffic flows. We first present deterministic end-to-end delay bounds for CBR traffic. We then prove that the delay of VBR traffic can be bounded if the traffic flow conforms to a leaky-bucket regulator. We further study different admission control algorithms for VBR traffic. Our simulation results show that, by taking advantage of statistical multiplexing, much more traffic flows can be admitted.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6-18
Number of pages13
JournalMobile Networks and Applications
Volume13
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2008

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

User-Defined Keywords

  • 802.11e
  • Quality of service
  • Wireless mesh network

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