Flexible Throughput Management in IEEE 802.11e Wireless LANs

The IEEE 802.11e standard has been developed to provide quality of service (QoS) support to a wireless local area network (WLAN). The framework for the standard is defined such that the precise configuration details are left open to allow a variety of possible implementations. Therefore the challenge lies in implementing a configuration to provide specific QoS requirements in a WLAN. In this paper, we propose a control scheme to provide flexible, throughput management. This scheme is evaluated using simulations and is shown to perform very well.

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