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Performance Study of MAC for Service Differentiation in IEEE 802.11

Overview In a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Medium Access Control (MAC) layer access parameters are usually differentiated for various classes of users to provide different Quality of Service (QoS). This paper investigates the MAC layer performance of IEEE 802.11e based WLAN, where the traffic flows are classified and each class is assigned different MAC parameters, such as Inter-Frame Space (IFS), and Contention Window (CW) size. This paper proposes a novel model based on the Markov chain, which takes into account almost all the important MAC parameters, CW, IFS, class number, etc.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2002
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wireless LAN, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wi-Fi (802.11)

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