期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications
印刷版ISSN：0975-2293
电子版ISSN：0974-9322
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
期号：2
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：One of the key challenges in designing a quality of service (QOS) scheme for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANS) is reducing collisions and improving throughput. Existed Adaptive contention windows mechanisms can reduce collisions of all traffic. However, adaptive contention window algorithms cannot guarantee the absolute priority of the high-priority traffic. Especially in the heavy loading, low-priority traffics will introduce unnecessary collisions and cause unsuccessful transmission. Our scheme aims to share the transmission channel efficiently and to provide the absolute differentiated traffic scheme. Relative priorities are provisioned by adjusting the range of the back-off timer of low-priority traffic class taking into account both applications requirements and network conditions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution by comparing with existing approaches through extensive simulations. Results show that our scheme reduces frame delay as well when traffic load is heavy. Furthermore, our scheme is simple and easy to implement.
