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A Comprehensive Study of the Enhanced Distributed Control Access (EDCA) Function

Hu, Chunyu; Hou, Jennifer C.

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Title
A Comprehensive Study of the Enhanced Distributed Control Access (EDCA) Function
Author(s)
  • Hu, Chunyu
  • Hou, Jennifer C.
Issue Date
2006-04
Keyword(s)
  • wireless networks
  • computer science
Date of Ingest
2009-04-21T15:55:55Z
Abstract
This technical report presents a comprehensive study of the Enhanced Distributed Control Access (EDCA) function defined in IEEE 802.11e. All the three factors are considered. They are: contention window size (CW), arbitration inter-frame space (AIFS), and transmission opportunity limit (TXOP). We first propose a discrete Markov chain model to describe the channel activities governed by EDCA. Then we evaluate the individual as well as joint effects of each factor on the throughput and QoS performance. We obtain several insightful observations showing that judiciously using the EDCA service differentiation mechanism is important to achieve maximum bandwidth utilization and user-specified QoS performance. Guided by our theoretical study, we devise a general QoS framework that provides QoS in an optimal way. The means of realizing the framework in a specific network is yet to be studied.
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Technical Report
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