Stochastic models of IEEE 802.11e wireless networks with multimedia applications

Authors:
Anurag Kumar
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Venue:
ICDCN'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We provide a survey of some of our recent results ([9], [13], [4], [6], [7]) on the analytical performance modeling of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs). We first present extensions of the decoupling approach of Bianchi ([1]) to the saturation analysis of IEEE 802.11e networks with multiple traffic classes. We have found that even when analysing WLANs with unsaturated nodes the following state dependent service model works well: when a certain set of nodes is nonempty, their channel attempt behaviour is obtained from the corresponding fixed point analysis of the saturated system. We will present our experiences in using this approximation to model multimedia traffic over an IEEE 802.11e network using the enhanced DCF channel access (EDCA) mechanism. We have found that we can model TCP controlled file transfers, VoIP packet telephony, and streaming video in the IEEE802.11e setting by this simple approximation.