Capacity Improvement and Analysis for Voice/Data Traffic over WLANs

Voice over wireless local area network (VoWLAN) is an emerging application taking advantage of the promising voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology and the wide deployment of WLANs all over the world. The real-time nature of voice traffic determines that controlled access rather than random access should be adopted. Further, to fully exploit the capacity of the WLAN supporting voice traffic, it is essential to explore statistical multiplexing and to suppress the large overhead. In this paper, we propose mechanisms to enhance the WLAN with voice quality of service (QoS) provisioning capability when supporting hybrid voice/data traffic. Voice multiplexing is achieved by a polling mechanism in the contention-free period and a deterministic priority access for voice traffic in the contention period. Header overhead for voice traffic is also reduced significantly. Delay-tolerant data traffic is guaranteed an average portion of service time in the long run. A session admission control algorithm is presented to admit voice traffic into the system with QoS guarantee. Analytical and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed solutions.

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