Modifications of DCF Scheme to Alleviate Jitter Property in WLANs

Dong-Hun Kang; Seung-Joon Seok

Modifications of DCF Scheme to Alleviate Jitter Property in WLANs

Dong-Hun Kang, Seung-Joon Seok, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 153-164, Oct. 2008
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Keywords: DCF, IEEE 802.11, MAC, Jitter, Real-time applications

Abstract

Almost literature has so far proposed the modifications to IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC protocol to improve system throughput and average delay. Jitter(variance in packet delays) is, however, considered as an important QoS parameter for real-time streaming service which is popularized increasingly. Unfortunately, legacy access protocol for WLAN can't support the jitter. This paper proposes two schemes modifying the DCF MAC protocol to reduce the average value of jitter for multimedia frames arrived at received nodes. The one scheme, referred to as DCW-DCF(Decreasing Contention Window-DCF), reduces CW(Contention Window) size by half whenever a transmitted frame collided against other frames and back-off happens. Also, it increase initial CW size according as the link utilization and the collision probability increase. The other scheme, referred to as D-DIFS(Differential-DIFS), assigns different values to DIFS. That is, the DIFS interval is deceased as the number of back-off for a frame increases. In this paper, the two schemes are evaluated through simulation using ns2 and simulation results show that the proposed schemes are effective for improving the jitter property of standard WLAN.

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[APA Style]

Kang, D. & Seok, S. (2008). Modifications of DCF Scheme to Alleviate Jitter Property in WLANs. Journal of Internet Computing and Services, 9(5), 153-164.

[IEEE Style]

D. Kang and S. Seok, "Modifications of DCF Scheme to Alleviate Jitter Property in WLANs," Journal of Internet Computing and Services, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 153-164, 2008.

[ACM Style]

Dong-Hun Kang and Seung-Joon Seok. 2008. Modifications of DCF Scheme to Alleviate Jitter Property in WLANs. Journal of Internet Computing and Services, 9, 5, (2008), 153-164.