Use of different acknowledgement policies for burst transmission in fiber-fed wireless LANs

Mjeku, Majlinda and Gomes, Nathan J. (2007) Use of different acknowledgement policies for burst transmission in fiber-fed wireless LANs. IEEE Communications Letters, 11 (7). pp. 601-603. ISSN 1089-7798. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2007.070138) (Full text available)

Abstract

The IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) for Quality-of-Service (QoS) support in 802.11 networks defines burst transmission and new acknowledgment (ACK) operations as optional mechanisms for increasing channel utilization. In this paper, we investigate how the performance of these new features is affected by the presence of fiber delay in high speed Wireless LAN (WLAN) over fiber networks. It is shown that the negative effect of the fiber delay on the throughput performance of the 802.11 MAC protocol can be significantly reduced when burst transmission is used with the Block or the No ACK policies.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled keywords:	iEEE 802.11e; medium access control; radio over fiber; wireless LAN
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5101 Telecommunications
Divisions:	Faculties > Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts > Broadband & Wireless Communications
Depositing User:	Stephen Holland
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2007 19:26 UTC
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2015 10:53 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/2069 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)