Buffer occupancy analysis for a broadband polling-based WLAN

Ashraf S.Hasan Mahmoud, David D. Falconer, Samy A. Mahmoud

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Abstract

Driven by growing demands for high-bandwidth multimedia services, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are now being designed with access schemes catering for both synchronous and asynchronous services. A polling-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for broadband indoor WLAN is briefly presented. Analytical evaluation of the embedded queueing model is performed under some assumptions, and the wireless terminal buffer size probability mass function is derived as a function of the cellloss probability, frame length and structure, and the input traffic statistics. The analysis considers a finite buffer size terminal case, and presents statistics of buffer blocking and mean number traffic cells in buffer. The analysis considers renewal input traffic models such as the generalized batched-Bernoulli models where traffic arrivals during interservice times are statistically independent.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNetwork Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility II - IFIP TC6 / WG6.2 and WG6.7 2nd International Conf. on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Net-Con 2003
PublisherSpringer New York LLC
Pages203-212
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781475759501
StatePublished - 2003

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume133
ISSN (Print)1868-4238

Keywords

  • Queueing/buffer analysis
  • Wireless LANs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems and Management

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