ieee802.11无线局域网中继协作机制研究-research on relay cooperation mechanism of ieee 802.11 wireless local area network.docx

AbstractRate anomaly is a common phenomenon at wireless LAN based on IEEE802.11 protocols. The STA nodes associated with a same AP usually have different transmission rate, so the STA nodes with lower transmission rate will consume more medium time than the ones with higher rate, and then rate anomaly happened. Rate anomaly will bring about a severe decrease of network throughput.In order to alleviate the performance loss caused by rate anomaly, many methods have been proposed,which can be classified as three categories including: changing the fairness transmission strategy, proposing multi-hop relay anddeploying repeater devices.Based on the survey on related work and the analysis on the features of WLAN and IEEE802.11 protocols, this paper proposed a cooperative relaymechanism (CRM) which substitute one-hop direct link with two-hop relay link only if the latter link has a better performance than the former link. This mechanism doesn’t only overcome the shortcuts of the solutions discussed above, but also effectively alleviate the rate anomaly occurred in WLAN. During the research and implementation process, a contention-aware medium time metric, which takes account of physical features, protocol expense and channel contention, has been proposed to more precisely indicate link performance. Meanwhile, an error compensation of link performance evaluation has also been proposed, which uses zero pause link switchover to re-evaluate the link performance with practical data traffic.Testing result showed that the new link performance evaluation can effectively indicate both one-hop and two-hop link performance and cooperative relay mechanism can alleviate the rate anomaly problem of WLAN.Key words:Rate Anomaly, Cooperative Repeat, Link Performance Evaluation目录摘要................................................................................................................... IAbstract........................................................................................