Title
Resolving Intra-Class Unfairness in 802.11 EDCA
Abstract
The de facto quality-of-service provisioning mechanism for wireless LANs is the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA), which provides enhanced service differentiation based on four different prioritized Access Categories (ACs). In this paper, we show that the multiple category mechanism of EDCA causes a new type of unfairness problem among the ACs of same priority class when the numbers of active ACs in competing nodes are different. We present a simple analytical model to capture the impact of virtual collision, external collision, and Arbitration Interframe Space on the degree of this intra-class unfairness. Based on its analytical insight, we present a simple remedy scheme for resolving the unfairness and evaluate its efficiency using ns-2 simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s11277-010-0141-2
Wireless Personal Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
WLAN QoS,802.11 EDCA,Intra-class unfairness,Virtual collision
Enhanced service,Computer science,Computer network,Communication channel,Collision,Real-time computing,Provisioning,Arbitration,Inter frame,Wireless lan
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63
2
0929-6212
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiwoong Jeong11026.02
Jaehyuk Choi238840.84
Sunghyun Choi33329348.07
Chong-kwon Kim41038102.46