FRA:基于帧长和发送速率的信道竞争算法

提出一种MAC层竞争信道的FRA算法。FRA算法以实验测得的数据帧长和信道速率作为调节CWmin的因子,提高了发送大数据帧或高速信道节点的信道占用时间。实验结果表明,该算法在速率、帧长各异的无线网络环境中,网络总吞吐率比DCF协议提高约70%。     

无线网络数据帧新型传输策略及仿真

该文针对IEEE802．11无线Adhoe网络提出了一种新型的帧传输策略。IEEE802．11无线网络标准支持分布式协调功能(DCF),即带冲突避免的载波监听多点接入(CSMA／CA),在数据传输过程中使用“请求发送-确认发送-数据-接收确认(RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK)”模式。但是当数据帧长度较短时,很多带宽被浪费在信道竞争上,而且降低了信道传输成功率,减少了网络吞吐量。因此,根据每个帧携带的延时(Duration)值,调整站点的网络分配向量(NAV),以此来动态调整数据帧的长度,从而增大网络传输的成功率,提高网络的吞吐量,减小整个网络的传送时延。将这种数据单元长度动态调整的帧传输策略简记为DTUL。     

面向多跳无线网络的无冲突MAC协议

多跳无线网络中隐藏节点导致节点之间的冲突频繁、数据重传率高、网络吞吐量下降.而802.11 DCF 中的RTS/CTS(ready-to-send/clear-to-send)机制不能有效地防止隐藏节点,特别是随着网络中节点通信速率的提高,由 于节点的信噪比要求也相应提高,接收节点受到更大范围内隐藏节点的干涉,RTS/CTS 机制防止隐藏节点的效率急剧降低.首先,在考虑网络积累干涉以及环境噪音的情况下分析了多跳无线网络中的隐藏节点问题.然后,提出一种双信道无冲突MAC(media access control)协议DCCFMA(double channel collision free media access).DCCFMA 协议采用双信道结构,接收节点根据数据信道中发送节点的信号强度动态调节控制信道的发射功率,以完全覆盖接收节点周围所有的隐藏节点,保证接收节点在接收过程中不受干涉.DCCFMA 协议能够有效地解决多跳无线网络中的隐藏节点问题.仿真结果表明,与802.11DCF 相比,DCCFMA 机制下的平均网络吞吐量增加了24%.     

基于802.11的多信道MAC协议性能分析

为了改善无线网络中信道带宽的利用率,提高网络的吞吐量性能,已有研究提出了采用多信道MAC协议的方法,将单个信道分割成控制子信道和数据子信道进行联合使用.针对基于802.11DCF的该类型MAC协议,采用离散Markov链对DCF的退避机制进行建模分析,研究了多信道下两种MAC机制的饱和吞吐量性能与信道带宽分配比例的关系,分析了网络节点数、数据分组大小和DCF竞争窗口等对优化多信道带宽分配的影响,并将多信道MAC机制下的网络性能与单信道MAC机制进行了对比.分析和仿真结果表明,采用优化的信道带宽分配,多信道的MAC机制可以一定程度上提高网络的吞吐量性能.但是,当允许控制帧以最大信道速率传输时,多信道MAC机制吞吐量性能并不比单信道MAC机制好.     

基于网络编码的802.11 DCF信道接入机制

提出一种基于网络编码的802.11 DCF信道接入机制(NCA-DCF)。采用冲突避免的主动确认策略,使相应节点形成编码意识,通过编码包的机会转发,提高数据包传输效率,结合无线网络编码的特性,运用马尔科夫链模型对NCA-DCF进行数学建模。分析结果表明,与传统的DCF信道接入机制相比,NCA-DCF不仅可以避免节点发送分组的碰撞,有效提高信道利用率,而且能够明显提高全网吞吐量。     

一种基于邻接节点信息的合作式Ad Hoc网络协议

在802.11协议中,DCF（Distributed Coordination Function）机制是节点共享无线信道进行数据传输的基本接入方式,为了解决无线网络中隐藏节点问题,使用RTS/CTS机制减少冲突,然而当网络节点数增加时,节点传输的冲突次数亦增加,从而使网络性能明显下降。因此,需要设计新的MAC协议,以适应当前Ad Hoc网络应用的快速发展。在IEEE 802.11的分布式协调功能访问机制（DCF）基础上,本文设计新的节点合作式的网络协议（C-MAC）。C-MAC节点通过控制帧获得本节点2跳内的邻接节点信息,并且根据邻接节点的信息设计调度算法,使节点以轮询的合作方式传输数据,有效地避免冲突。仿真实验表明,在改变节点速率、帧长度、网络节点数等参数情况下,分别以吞吐量、单帧传输时间和公平性为指标,对DCF和C MAC协议进行性能比较。在节点传输速率为11Mbps时,C MAC协议吞吐量比标准DCF最多可增加50%。     

CDMA2000无线网络中的视频数据传输

实时视频业务将是3G无线网络中最主要的无线宽带应用业务之一。文章在分析视频数据在CDMA2000无线网络中的传输机制的基础上,重点研究CDMA2000链路层重传技术对视频数据传输的影响,并通过OPNET仿真平台及相应的视频编解码实现进行仿真,分析比较了无线信道各种帧差错率条件下不同重传方案对视频实时数据传输的性能影响,表明链路层重传在一定程度上能改善CDMA2000无线网络中的视频传输效果。     

无线网络中基于流媒体传输的自适应TFRC机制

在无线网络高误码率的环境下, 经典TFRC机制会将无线误码丢包误认为拥塞丢包, 导致吞吐量过度降低. 针对无线网络实时流媒体业务的传输控制问题, 提出了一种改进型动态自适应TFRC机制(Adaptive-TFRC). 它在接收端利用丢包区分参数来真实反映网络的状态(即拥塞或者误码), 然后反馈至发送端, 同时对经典TFRC机制的吞吐量模型公式进行改进, 最终能够根据实时网络条件动态自适应地调节传输速率. 仿真结果表明, Adaptive-TFRC机制能够有效地提高网络吞吐量, 降低实时业务流的延时抖动, 同时能够进一步改善TCP业务的友好性传输, 从而保证无线网络实时流媒体的服务质量.     

光突发交换网络中支持服务质量的一种新方案

提出了光突发交换网络支持服务质量的一种新方案.在此方案中,核心节点根据到达的数据突发的优先级别,将每一出口链路的数据信道进行分组.每一组别的数据信道数主要取决于相应优先级别的数据流量.通常情况下,属于某优先级别的数据突发会被调度在相应组别的数据信道上.在高优先级别的数据突发未能预留在其相应组别的数据信道上时,可尝试为其在低组别的数据信道上预留,甚至抢占低组别内已经被预留的信道;低优先级别的数据突发不能被预留在高组别的数据信道上.另外,也考察了抢占数据突发长度与被抢占数据突发长度之间的关系.     

采用渐进式预留机制的Ad Hoc网络MAC协议

实时业务传输的服务质量(QoS)保障问题一直是限制Ad Hoc网络发展的瓶颈.在分布式网络环境下,分组冲突十分普遍,节点很难在限定的时间内成功接入信道.现有很多算法(如FPRP)虽能很好的消除冲突,却需要非常多的控制分组,同样造成过高的接入时延.在研究动态时隙分配类MAC协议的基础上,设计了一种采用渐进式预留机制的MAC协议,协议通过分级预留、协同竞争和空闲时隙的时隙重构来达到分组冲突的充分化解,信道资源的高效利用,以及不同优先级业务的有效接入.仿真表明,与现有时隙类协议相比,新协议可以显著减少分组冲突,提高信道利用率,实现较低的分组接入延迟,并且能够较好的支持数据报业务.     

Channel time allocation scheme based on feedback information in IEEE 802.11e wireless LANs

The IEEE 802.11e standard defines a set of quality of service (QoS) enhancements for wireless local area network (WLAN) applications such as voice and streaming multimedia traffic. In the standard, a new medium access control (MAC) protocol is called the hybrid coordinator function (HCF), and also a channel access scheme to transmit multimedia traffic is called the HCF controlled channel access (HCCA). In the IEEE 802.11e WLANs, to satisfy the stringent real-time constraints of multimedia services it is very important to provide an efficient method of allocating network resources. In this regard, we propose a feedback-assisted dynamic channel time allocation scheme considering the application layer information in order to achieve better performance of multimedia traffic over IEEE 802.11e HCCA under the constrained QoS requirements. Performance of the proposed scheme is investigated by simulation. Our results show that under typical channel error conditions, the proposed scheme is very effective regardless of the variation of station numbers and service intervals. Also, it yields high performances while guaranteeing the delay bound.     

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.     

Differentiation, QoS guarantee, and optimization for real-time traffic over one-hop ad hoc networks

Nodes having a self-centrically broadcasting nature of communication form a wireless ad hoc network. Many issues are involved to provide quality of service (QoS) for ad hoc networks, including routing, medium access, resource reservation, mobility management, etc. Previous work mostly focuses on QoS routing with an assumption that the medium access control (MAC) layer can support QoS very well. However, contention-based MAC protocols are adopted in most ad hoc networks since there is no centralized control. QoS support in contention-based MAC layer is a very challenging issue. Carefully designed distributed medium access techniques must be used as foundations for most ad hoc networks. In this paper, we study and enhance distributed medium access techniques for real-time transmissions in the IEEE 802.11 single-hop ad hoc wireless networks. In the IEEE 802.11 MAC, error control adopts positive acknowledgement and retransmission to improve transmission reliability in the wireless medium (WM). However, for real-time multimedia traffic with sensitive delay requirements, retransmitted frames may be too late to be useful due to the fact that the delay of competing the WM is unpredictable. In this paper, we address several MAC issues and QoS issues for delay-sensitive real-time traffic. First, a priority scheme is proposed to differentiate the delay sensitive real-time traffic from the best-effort traffic. In the proposed priority scheme, retransmission is not used for the real-time traffic, and a smaller backoff window size is adopted. Second, we propose several schemes to guarantee QoS requirements. The first scheme is to guarantee frame-dropping probability for the real-time traffic. The second scheme is to guarantee throughput and delay. The last scheme is to guarantee throughput, delay, and frame-dropping probability simultaneously. Finally, we propose adaptive window backoff schemes to optimize throughput with and without QoS constraints.     

Modelling and performance evaluation of the IEEE 802.11 DCF for real-time control

Popular wireless networks, such as IEEE 802.11/15/16, are not designed for real-time applications. Thus, supporting real-time quality of service (QoS) in wireless real-time control is challenging. This paper adopts the widely used IEEE 802.11, with the focus on its distributed coordination function (DCF), for soft-real-time control systems. The concept of the critical real-time traffic condition is introduced to characterize the marginal satisfaction of real-time requirements. Then, mathematical models are developed to describe the dynamics of DCF based real-time control networks with periodic traffic, a unique feature of control systems. Performance indices such as throughput and packet delay are evaluated using the developed models, particularly under the critical real-time traffic condition. Finally, the proposed modelling is applied to traffic rate control for cross-layer networked control system design.     

Providing MAC QoS for multimedia traffic in 802.11e based multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks

Ad hoc wireless networks with their widespread deployment, now need to support applications that generate multimedia and real-time traffic. Video, audio, real-time voice over IP, and other multimedia applications require the network to provide guarantees on the Quality of Service (QoS) of the connection. The 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol was proposed with the aim of providing QoS support at the MAC layer. The 802.11e performs well in wireless LANs due to the presence of Access Points (APs), but in ad hoc networks, especially multi-hop ones, it is still incapable of supporting multimedia traffic.One of the most important QoS parameters for multimedia and real-time traffic is delay. Our primary goal is to reduce the end-to-end delay, thereby improving the Packet Delivery Ratio of multimedia traffic, that is, the proportion of packets that reach the destination within the deadline, in 802.11e based multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks.Our contribution is threefold: first we propose dynamic ReAllocative Priority (ReAP) scheme, wherein the priorities of packets in the MAC queues are not fixed, but keep changing dynamically. We use the laxity and the hop length information to decide the priority of the packet. ReAP improves the PDR by over 28% in comparison with 802.11e, especially under heavy loads. Second, we introduce Adaptive-TXOP (A-TXOP), where transmission opportunity (TXOP) is the time interval during which a node has the right to initiate transmissions. This scheme reduces the delay of video traffic by reducing the number of channel accesses required to transmit large video frames. It involves modifying the TXOP interval dynamically based on the packets in the queue, so that fragments of the same packet are sent in the same TXOP interval. A-TXOP is implemented over ReAP to further improve the performance of video traffic. ReAP with A-TXOP helps in reducing the delay of video traffic by over 27% and further improves the quality of video in comparison with ReAP without A-TXOP. Finally, we have TXOP-sharing, which is aimed at reducing the delay of voice traffic. It involves using the TXOP to transmit to multiple receivers, in order to utilize the TXOP interval fully. It reduces the number of contentions to the channel and thereby reduces the delay of voice traffic by over 14%. A-TXOP is implemented over ReAP to further improve the performance of voice traffic. The three schemes (ReAP, A-TXOP, and TXOP-sharing) work together to improve the performance of multimedia traffic in 802.11e based multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks.     

Evaluating transport protocol performance over a wireless mesh backbone

IEEE 802.11n wireless physical layer technology increases the deployment of high throughput wireless indoor mesh backbones for ubiquitous Internet connectivity at the urban and metropolitan areas. Most of the network traffic flows in today’s Internet use ‘Transmission Control Protocol’ (TCP) as the transport layer protocol. There has been extensive works that deal with TCP issues over wireless mesh networks as well as noisy wireless channels. Further, IEEE 802.11n is well known for its susceptibility to increased channel losses during high data rate communication. This paper investigates the dynamics of an end-to-end transport layer protocol like TCP in the presence of burst and correlated losses during IEEE 802.11n high data rate communication, while maintaining fairness among all the end-to-end flows. For this purpose, we evaluate four TCP variants-Loss Tolerant TCP (LT-TCP), Network Coded TCP (TCP/NC), TCP-Horizon and Wireless Control Protocol (WCP), where the first two protocols are known to perform very well in extreme lossy networks, and the last two are specifically designed for mesh networks. Our evaluation shows that WCP performs better in a IEEE 802.11n supported mesh networks compared to other three variants. However, WCP also results in negative impact at high data rates, where end-to-end goodput drops with the increase in physical data rate. The analysis of the results reveals that explicit loss notifications and flow balancing are not sufficient to improve transport protocol performance in an IEEE 802.11n supported mesh backbone, rather a specific mechanism is required to synchronize the transport queue management with lower layer scheduling that depends on IEEE 802.11n features, like channel bonding and frame aggregation. The findings of this paper give the direction to design a new transport protocol that can utilize the full capacity of IEEE 802.11n mesh backbone.     

基于QoS的无线传感器网络路由

综合考虑无线传感器网络的路径节点最小能量、路径能耗、延迟、信道错误率等因素,采用QoS路由对不同的查询业务实现区分服务。通过对传统的定向扩散路由算法的扩展,在保证业务可靠性要求的前提下,组合利用“路径节点最小能量/路径能耗”和“最小跳数”信息,提出了一种针对尽力而为业务和实时业务的QoS路由算法。仿真结果表明,扩展后的算法能满足业务的可靠性要求,随信道错误率的增加,它能更好地均衡网络各节点的能耗。     

Service level agreements (SLAs) parameter negotiation between heterogeneous 4G wireless network operators

We are currently witnessing a growing interest of network operators to migrate their existing 2G/3G networks to 4G technologies such as long-term evolution (LTE) to enhance the user experience and service opportunities in terms of providing multi-megabit bandwidth, more efficient use of radio networks, latency reduction, and improved mobility. Along with this, there is a strong deployment of packet data networks such as those based on IEEE 802.11 and 802.16 standards. Mobile devices are having increased capabilities to access many of these wireless networks types at the same time. Reinforcing quality of service (QoS) in 4G wireless networks will be a major challenge because of varying bit rates, channel characteristics, bandwidth allocation and global roaming support among heterogeneous wireless networks. As a mobile user moves across access networks, to the issue of mapping resource reservations between different networks to maintain QoS behavior becomes crucial. To support global roaming and interoperability across heterogeneous wireless networks, it is important for wireless network operators to negotiate service level agreement (SLA) contracts relevant to the QoS requirements. Wireless IP traffic modeling (in terms of providing assured QoS) is still immature because the majority of the existing work is merely based on the characterization of wireless IP traffic without investigating the behavior of queueing systems for such traffic. To overcome such limitations, we investigate SLA parameter negotiation among heterogeneous wireless network operators by focusing on traffic engineering and QoS together for 4G wireless networks. We present a novel mechanism that achieves service continuity through SLA parameter negotiation by using a translation matrix, which maps QoS parameters between different access networks. The SLA matrix composition is modeled analytically based on the G/M/1 queueing system. We evaluate the model using two different scheduling schemes and we derive closed form expressions for different QoS parameters for performance metrics such as packet delay and packet loss rate. We also develop a discrete event simulator and conduct a series of simulation experiments in order to understand the QoS behavior of corresponding traffic classes.     

A new adaptive MAC protocol with QoS support based on IEEE 802.11 in ad hoc networks

With the expanding of applications, the demand of quality of service (QoS) has become strongly increased in ad hoc networks. Since the efficient and reasonable MAC protocol is a key factor for providing QoS in ad hoc networks, in this paper we propose an adaptive QoS MAC protocol (AMP) based on IEEE 802.11. In AMP, we introduce the concept of transmission license, where only the node which holds transmission license can participate in the channel contention for changing the number of licenses according to the load of the network adaptively, controlling the number of the nodes that participate in the channel contention, and ensuring the nodes with licenses share the channels through contention. In addition, AMP assigns different priority classes for different traffic according to the special characteristics and performance types of the different networks, and it sets the different contention parameters for the different priorities services for guaranteeing these services performances to have advantages in the channel contention. Simulation shows that compared to IEEE 802.11 protocol, AMP not only can meet the QoS requirement with high priority in the networks but also can well solve the hidden terminal problems and the fairness issues between different network nodes; that is, it can satisfy the high efficiency, pertinence, spatial-reuse, etc. to the largest extent at the same time in limited channels.     

支持QoS的IEEE 802.11 EDCA性能研究

随着无线网络应用的不断发展,为了适应网络中不同类型业务的区分服务需要,IEEE 802.11工作组在IEEE 802.11 DCF(distributed coordination function)的基础上推出了支持QoS的IEEE 802.11 EDCA协议.针对EDCA(enhanced distributed channel access)协议的优先级区分信道接入特性,提出了一种基于Markov链的协议性能模型分析方法.与已有文献不同,该模型分析同时包含了EDCA主要的3个关键区分信道接入机制:Wmin/Wmax,AIFS(arbitration inter-frame space),TXOP(transmission opportunity).通过模型分析,获得了EDCA协议各优先级接入的传输吞吐量、信道接入延迟、数据丢失率等性能分析.不仅分析了饱和情形下的EDCA性能,而且还对非饱和情形下的EDCA性能进行了分析.仿真验证结果表明,模型分析结果和仿真结果取得了很好的一致性.利用给出的模型分析方法,提出了一种基于TXOP动态调整的D-TXOP(dynamic TXOP)接纳控制算法.算法根据网络中业务流的QoS要求,在动态调整各优先级的TXOP参数设置的基础上,对网络中新到业务流进行接纳控制,达到提高网络的业务承载能力的目的.