Analysis, modeling and generation of self-similar VBR video traffic
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
Evaluation of Quality of Service Schemes for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
LCN '01 Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
High Performance TCP/IP Networking
High Performance TCP/IP Networking
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Analysis of IEEE 802.11e for QoS support in wireless LANs
IEEE Wireless Communications
Three new speech coders from the ITU cover a range of applications
IEEE Communications Magazine
On the impact of IEEE 802.11 MAC on traffic characteristics
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Performance analysis and enhancements for IEEE 802.11e wireless networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) mechanism has been recently proposed for supporting differentiated Quality-of-Services (QoS) in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Heterogeneous traffic generated by wireless multimedia applications and hidden stations arisen from the wireless transmission power constraints have significant impact on the performance of MAC protocols. This study performs extensive simulation experiments and conducts comprehensive performance evaluation of the IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) protocol in WLANs with hidden stations and heterogeneous traffic. For this purpose, non-bursty Poisson, bursty ON/OFF, and fractal-like self-similar processes with high variability are used to model and generate heterogeneous network traffic. The performance results have shown that the protocol is able to achieve differentiated throughput, access delay and medium utilization. However, the hidden stations can degrade the throughput and medium utilization and also increase the medium access delay greatly in the presence of heterogeneous traffic.