A Delayed-ACK Scheme for Performance Enhancement of Wireless LANs

Kliazovich, Dzmitry and Granelli, Fabrizio (2003) A Delayed-ACK Scheme for Performance Enhancement of Wireless LANs. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

[img]
Preview
 PDF
Download (1083Kb) | Preview

    Abstract

    The IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol provides a reliable link layer using Stop & Wait ARQ. The cost for high reliability is the overhead due to acknowledgement packets in the direction opposite to the actual data flow. In this paper, the design of a new protocol as an enhancement of IEEE 802.11 is proposed, with the aim of reducing supplementary traffic overhead in order to increase the bandwidth available for actual data transmission. The performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated through comparison with IEEE 802.11 as well as with a SSCOP-based protocol. Results underline significant advantages of the proposed protocol against existing ones, thus confirming the value and potentiality of the approach.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5105.5 Computer Networks
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Wireless LAN, IEEE 802.11, Delayed ACK, ARQ scheme
    Report Number: DIT-03-042
    Repository staff approval on: 17 Nov 2003

    Actions (login required)

    		 View Item