Optimization of multi-service IEEE802.11e block acknowledgement

Authors:
O. Cabral;A. Segarra;F. J. Velez;A. Mihovska;N. R. Prasad
Affiliations:
Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal;Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal;Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal;Networking and Security Section Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;Networking and Security Section Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Venue:
RWS'09 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Radio and wireless symposium
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Optimization of IEEE 802.11e MAC protocol performance is addressed by modifying several parameters left open in the standard, like block size and acknowledgement policies in order to improve the channel efficiency. The use of small block sizes leads to a high overhead caused by the negotiation on the other hand, the use of large block sizes causes long delays, which can affect negatively real-time applications (or delay sensitive applications). An event driven simulator was developed, and results with a single service and several services running simultaneously were extracted. By using the Block Acknowledgement (BA) procedure, for video and background traffics in a single service situation, the capacity was improved in the case when the number of stations is equal or higher than 16 and 12, respectively. However, for lower values of the number of stations, the use of BA leads to a slightly worst system performance. In a scenario with mixture of services the most advised block size is 12 (less delay in a highly loaded scenario). The number of supported user (total) increases from 30 to 35.