Admission Control Based on Rate-Variance Envelop for VBR Traffic over IEEE 802.11e HCCA WLA.pdf

Admission Control Based on Rate-Variance Envelop for VBR Traffic over IEEE 802.11e HCCA WLANs ∗ a a b Deyun Gao , Jianfei Cai , Chang Wen Chen a School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 b Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, FL 32901 Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Vehicle Technology as Transactions Paper Contact Author: Jianfei Cai Center for Multimedia and Network Technology School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University BLK N4, #02a-32 Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798 Phone: (65) 6790-6150 Fax: (65) 6792-6559 Email: asjfcai@.sg ∗This research is partially supported by Singapore A*STAR SERC Grant (032 101 0006). A brief version of this paper has been published in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2006. 1 Abstract With the increasing popularity of using WLANs for Internet access, the controlled channel access mech- anism in IEEE 802.11e WLANs, HCCA, has received much more attention since its inherent centralized mechanism is more efficient in handling time-bounded multimedia traffic. So far, only a few research studies address the admission control problem of variable bit rate (VBR) traffic over HCCA. These existing studies consider each traffic flow individually and thus cannot exploit