期刊名称：International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks
印刷版ISSN：0975-4679
电子版ISSN：0975-3834
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：6
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：A number of traffic characterization studies have been carried out on wireless LANs, which indicate that the wireless settings pose major challenges, especially for high bandwidth and delay sensitive applications. This paper aims to evaluate a number of Quality of Service (QoS) parameters related to video conferencing over three major WLAN Standards 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. To study the traffic characterization behaviour of these WLAN standards, we have simulated the environment for each of these standards and performed experiments. Results are verified through the delivery of successful H.261 video traffic import in OPNET-14 Network simulator. We found that a trade-off exists between the selected data rate, physical characteristics and the frequency spectrum (number of channels) for every standard. The traffic of video conferencing is characterized over each standard in terms of delay performance, traffic performance and load and throughput performance. The results show that quality of video traffic is a function of the frequency band, physical characteristic, maximum data rate and buffer sizes of WLAN standards.
关键词：WLAN standards; QoS support; video conferencing; OPNET-14.
