Modeling and Simulation of MAC for QoS in IEEE 802 11e Using OPNET Modeler英文电子书.pdfVIP

Modeling and Simulation of MAC for QoS in IEEE 802.11e Using OPNET Modeler Weihua Helen Xi, Toby Whitley, Alistair Munro, Michael Barton Networks Protocols Group, CCR, Department of Electrical Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol Bristol, UK BS8 1UB email: helen.xi@bristol.ac.uk Abstract enhancements in OPNET; the simulation results are This paper presents an IEEE 802.11e model developed using the demonstrated in Section 5 and finally, the paper is concluded in OPNET Modeler, which is employed for Medium Access Section 6. Control (MAC) enhancements for Quality of Service (QoS). IEEE 802.11e QoS is implemented using the concept of varying 2. 802.11 MAC Overview levels of service for different traffic types. Four Access The IEEE 802.11 MAC specifies two access methods, the Categories (ACs) are defined with each supporting a different fundamental Distributed Coordination function (DCF) and the priority for accessing the radio channel. The QoS station optional Point Coordination Function (PCF). Most of the (QSTA) based on the existing 802.11 model but using an AC commercial 802.11 products only employ contention based priority queuing and access mechanism is presented. The DCF. Considering the doubts on the efficiency of PCF [5], it was enhanced queue provides virtual contention for a transmission chosen to implement the 802.11e model supporting DCF mode opportunity with higher ACs having a greater probability of only. success. This work offers a flexible and more accurate model to simulate the performance of QoS mechanisms within the