Journal article

Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11 WLANs with saturated and unsaturated sources

SH Nguyen, HL Vu, LLH Andrew

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology | IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC | Published : 2012

Abstract

This paper proposes a comprehensive but tractable model of IEEE 802.11 carrying traffic from a mixture of saturated and unsaturated (Poisson) sources, with potentially different quality-of-service (QoS) parameters, i.e., TXOP limit, CW min, and CW max. The model is used to investigate the interaction between these two types of sources, which is particularly useful for systems seeking to achieve load-independent fair service differentiation. We show that, when the TXOP limit for unsaturated sources is greater than one packet, batches are distributed as a geometric random variable clipped to TXOP limit. Furthermore, we present asymptotic results for access delay distribution, which indicates t..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

Manuscript received January 3, 2011; revised May 23, 2011 and August 13, 2011; accepted October 10, 2011. Date of publication October 28, 2011; date of current version January 20, 2012. This work was supported by the Australian Research Council under Grant DP1095103 and Grant FT0991594. The review of this paper was coordinated by Prof. Y. Cheng.