• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.19-20
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• 2007

IEEE 802.lie is a new standard to support Quality of Service. HCCA(HCF controlled channel access) is a channel access mechanism, which polls the Qos-stations, utilized by the HC in AP. In this paper, we proposed an efficient scheduling algorithm in HCCA and compared with existing algorithms. Extensive simulation has done in ns-2 and the simulation results show our algorithm outperforms existing algorithms.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.31-41
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• 2009

IEEE 802.11e proposed by IEEE 802.11 working group to guarantee QoS has contention based EDCA and contention free based HCCA. HCCA, a centralized polling based mechanism of 802.11e, needs a scheduling algorithm to allocate the network resource efficiently. The existing standard scheduler, however, is inefficient to support for QoS guarantee for real-time service having VBR traffic. To improve these limit, in this paper, we First, we propose priority polling algorithm which additionally considers the size of MSI and TXOP based on EDD algorithm to increase number of QSTAs. We also propose a dual token bucket TXOP allocation algorithm to reduce congestion caused by stations which enters network with considerable delay variance. TSPEC parameters, Maximum Burst Size (MBS) and Peak Data Rate (PR), are applied to design depth and token generation rate of two buckets. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has much higher performance compared with reference and SETT-EDD scheduler in terms of throughput and delay.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11B
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• pp.1178-1190
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• 2009

IEEE 802.11e proposed by IEEE 802.11 working group to guarantee QoS has contention based EDCA and contention free based HCCA. HCCA, a centralized polling based mechanism of 802.11e, needs a scheduling algorithm to allocate the network resource efficiently. The existing standard scheduler, however, is inefficient to support for QoS guarantee for real-time service having VBR traffic. To efficiently assign resource for VBR traffic, in this paper, we propose TXOP algorithm based on dual leaky bucket using average resource allocation and peak resource allocation. The minimum TXOP of each station is obtained by using statistical approach to maximize number of stations of which performance satisfy QoS target. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has much higher performance compared with reference scheduler in terms of throughput and delay.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

In this paper we propose a scheduling algorithm for supporting Quality of Service(QoS) in IEEE 802.11e HCCA referred to as ASR-DRR and ASD-DRR, which aims at providing improved performance for the support of multimedia traffic. Although We identify the problem of the current IEEE 802.11e HCCA (Hybrid Coordination Function Controlled Channel Access) scheduler and its numerous variations, that the queue information cannot be notified to the Hybrid Coordinator (HC) timely, therefore the uplink delay lengthens unnecessarily. We suggests a simple solution and a couple of implementation practices, namely the Adaptive Scheduler with RTS/CTS (ASR) and Adaptive Scheduler with Data/Ack (ASD). They are both further elaborated to emulate the Deficit Round Robin (DRR) scheduler. They are also compared with existing exemplary schedulers through simulation, and shown to perform well.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.8A
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• pp.820-827
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• 2010

In these days, video applications for special purposes such as video conference systems among multiple users and video surveillance systems require multiple video connections and QoS guarantee. The video systems employ IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN devices to support broadband wireless interfaces and easy internet accesses for cheaper prices. However, according to the current IEEE 802.11e HCCA standard, if more than three video sessions are established in WSTA services, some of them must share the TXOP because the available number of TSIDs for video transmission is two. In order to resolve the problem, we devised a method which can establish up to 15 video sessions by slightly modifying the frame structure while maintaining the compatibility with current standard. Our method is implemented on the NCTUns 4.0 network simulator, and evaluated not only numerically in terms of throughput, delay, and PSNR, but also experimentally in the sense of real video clips that are used as input to our simulation. The results showed that our method sufficiently guarantees the transmission bandwidth requested by each video session.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.9B
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• pp.785-791
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• 2006

A CF-Poll frame which contains the channel reservation time can be piggybacked in QoS-Data frame to increase the channel efficiency in HCCA. However, if any QSTA in the network uses the low physical transmission rate, the QoS-Data frame which includes the CF-Poll frame must be transmitted by the minimum transmission rate. Therefore, it can cause the decrease of the channel efficiency and the increase of the frame transmission delay for other traffic streams when any QSTA has the low physical transmission rate. In this paper, we define this phenomenon as the piggyback problem at the low physical transmission rate and evaluate the effect of this problem. In the simulation results, when a CF-Poll piggyback is used, the delay is increased about 25% if any QSTA has the low physical transmission rate, while the delay is decreased about 7.8% if all QSTA has the high physical transmission rate. We also found that the gain of the CF-Poll piggyback mechanism is achieved when all QSTA has higher physical transmission rate than 24 or 36Mbps.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.4B
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• pp.192-198
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a scheme that improves the transmission performance of realtime multimedia data in wireless Local Area Network (LAN) environment, through the dynamical control of Transmission Opportunity (TXOP) period of the IEEE 802.11e HCCA Medium Access Control (MAC). The existing schedulers which determine the frame transmission time and its duration could not appropriately cope with the change of physical transmission rate, since the TXOP period has remained unchanged with the change of transmission rate of the wireless station. Our scheme is devised to keep the transmission performance of real-time multimedia data effectively unchanged by making TXOP period be extended when the transmission rate gets reduced. The proposed scheme is experimented along with IEEE 802.11e reference model using NCTUns simulator, which shows that the multimedia data is effectively delivered with the change of transmission rate as the distance between the wireless station and its access point increases.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.535-538
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• 2005

Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 standard are widely spread for use nowadays. Traffic which are conveyed over the WLANs change rapidly from normal data such a Email and Web pages, to multimedia data of high resolution video and voice. To meet QoS (Quality of Service) required by these multimedia traffic, the IEEE 802 committee recently has developed a new standard, IEEE 802.11e. IEEe 802.11.e contains two MAC mechanisms for providing QoS: EDCA(Enhanced Distributed Channel Access) and HCCA (HCF Controlled Channel Access). Using these standardized MAC mechanisms as a building platform, various admission control mechanisms can be combined to offer QoS gurantees for multimedia traffic. This paper surveys these research efforts.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06d
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• pp.340-342
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• 2006

본 논문의 연구에서는 IEEE 802.11e HCCA에서 멀티미디어와 같은 트래픽에 대해 보다 안정적인 전송을 위하여 일정 시간 동안 채널을 사용할 수 있도록 HC (Hyper Coordinator)가 허가함에 있어서 IEEE 802.11 PHY (physical layer)의 모듈레이션 변화에 따른 동적인 대응이 필요함을 논하고, 문제 해결을 위한 방안을 제시하였다. IEEE 802.11e의 HC는 멀티미디어와 같은 트래픽의 전송을 위하여 BSS (Basic Service Set) 안에 있는 무선 단말기와 TSPEC (Traffic Specification)을 이용하여 CAP (Controlled Access Phase) 채널을 설정하고 관리한다. 그러나 HC가 TSPEC을 설정할 당시와는 달리 무선 단말기들은 이동하거나 물리적으로 채널 환경의 변화로 IEEE 802.11 PHY의 모듈레이터 변경으로 설정된 TXOP 듀레이션 (duration)이 적절하지 않게 된다. 이와 같은 문제점을 밝히고 해결 방안을 아래와 같이 제안한다. 실험을 위해서는 NS-2와 유사하지만 보다 세련된 시뮬레이터를 활용하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.9B
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• pp.775-785
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• 2008

We identify the problem of the current IEEE 802. lie HCCA (Hybrid Coordination Function Controlled Channel Access) scheduler and its numerous variations, that the queue information cannot be notified to the Hybrid Coordinator (HC) timely, therefore the uplink delay lengthens unnecessarily. We suggests a simple solution and a couple of implementation practices, namely the Adaptive Scheduler with RTS/CTS (ASR) and Adaptive Scheduler with Data/Ack (ASD). They are both further elaborated to emulate the Deficit Round Robin (DRB) scheduler. They are finally compared with existing exemplary schedulers through simulations, and shown to perform well.