Supporting QoS in IEEE 802.11e wireless LANs over fading channel

Transferring real-time traffic such as voice and video over wireless LAN networks (WLAN) requires stringent delay and jitter requirements. Recently IEEE 802.11e standard has been emerged to support QoS in WLAN. One of the methods to provide QoS in this standard is Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) which benefits form the concept of traffic categories. However, EDCA is a contention based method; therefore it can not guarantee strict QoS required by real-time services without proper network control mechanisms. In this paper, we analyze the effect of loss and delay caused by fading channel on EDCA performance. Then, we propose a modification to the media access scheme, called CAFD (Collision Avoidance with Fading Detection) to elevate the performance against channel failures. Moreover an adjustment for the maximum number of retransmissions is proposed to maintain the delay and jitter requirements of the real-time traffic. The performances of the proposed methods are evaluated by simulations.

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