Link-adaptable polling-based MAC protocol for wireless LANs

Byung-Seo Kim, Sung Won Kim, Yuguang Fang, Tan F. Wong

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Abstract

The IEEE 802.11 standard defines a centralized polling-based channel access method, the Point Coordination Function (PCF), to support time-bounded services. This approach is not efficient due to inefficient polling and large overhead. To design an efficient polling scheme, the Point Coordinator (PC) needs to obtain information about the current transmission status and channel condition for each station. To reduce overhead, it is better to poll all stations using one polling frame containing the transmission sequence. In this paper, we propose an efficient polling scheme, referred to as Two-Step MultiPolling (TS-MP), for the PCF in WLANs. In this new scheme, we propose to use two multi-polling frames for different purposes. The first frame is broadcasted to collect information such as the numbers of pending frames and the physical layer transmission rates for the communication links among all stations. The second frame is broadcasted with a polling sequence for data transmissions designed by utilizing the collected information. Extensive simulation studies show that TS-MP not only overcomes the aforementioned deficiencies, but also help to implement rate adaptation over a time-varying wireless channel © 2004 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM'04 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Pages2997-3001
Volume5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
Event2004 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'04) - Dallas, TX, United States
Duration: 29 Nov 20043 Dec 2004

Publication series

NameGLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
Volume5

Conference

Conference2004 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'04)
PlaceUnited States
CityDallas, TX
Period29/11/043/12/04

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Research Keywords

  • MAC
  • PCF
  • Rate-Adaptive Protocol
  • Wieless LAN

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