• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1492-1512
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• 2011

Due to multiple hops, mobility and time-varying channel, supporting delay sensitive real-time traffic in wireless local area network-based (WLAN) mesh networks is a challenging task. In particular for real-time traffic subject to medium access control (MAC) layer control overhead, such as preamble, carrier sense waiting time and the random backoff period, the performance of real-time flows will be degraded greatly. In order to support real-time traffic, an efficient adaptive packet scheduling (APS) scheme is proposed, which aims to improve the system performance by guaranteeing inter-class, intra-class service differentiation and adaptively adjusting the packet length. APS classifies incoming packets by the IEEE 802.11e access class and then queued into a suitable buffer queue. APS employs strict priority service discipline for resource allocation among different service classes to achieve inter-class fairness. By estimating the received signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) per bit and current link condition, APS is able to calculate the optimized packet length with bi-dimensional markov MAC model to improve system performance. To achieve the fairness of intra-class, APS also takes maximum tolerable packet delay, transmission requests, and average allocation transmission into consideration to allocate transmission opportunity to the corresponding traffic. Detailed simulation results and comparison with IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) scheme show that the proposed APS scheme is able to effectively provide inter-class and intra-class differentiate services and improve QoS for real-time traffic in terms of throughput, end-to-end delay, packet loss rate and fairness.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권1A호
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• pp.44-53
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• 2010

본 논문은 무선망 환경에서 패킷의 지연 제어를 위한 트래픽 관리 방안을 제시한다. 전송 노드의 버퍼에서 서비스 순서를 결정짓는 방안으로 EDD(Earliest Due Date) 스케쥴링 정책을 적용하여 각 패킷의 긴급성에 근거한 서비스 제어가 이루어지도록 하였다. 또한 채널 공유 제어를 위한 MAC 파라미터인 contention window 값은 MAC의 non-work conserving 특성을 최소화하여 지연을 감소시킬 수 있도록 시스템 상태에 따라 적응적으로 설정하는 방안을 제시하였다. 이 방안은 트래픽 클래스와는 무관하게 각 패킷별 지연 제어가 이루어지므로 클래스 단위의 파라미터 설정이 필요 없게 된다. 이러한 구현의 간편성 이외에 기능 및 성능의 타당성을 확인하기 위하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하였으며, IEEE 802.11e와 같은 클래스 단위의 큐 운용 방식에 비해 지연 감소 및 지연 요구 충족률이 높은 것을 확인하였다.