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Soft reservation based prioritized access: Towards performance enhancement for VoIP over WLANs

Bing Feng*, Zhen Wang, Chi Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Yuguang Fang

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for VoIP over WLANs, referred to as SRPA (Soft Reservation based Prioritized Access). To fully exploit the on/off characteristics of conversational speech to improve the VoIP capacity, SRPA adopts soft reservation where the reserved channel resources of voice users in silence periods can be released to support more backlogged voice users in talking periods. SRPA completely separates admitted voice users from new voice users, and the admitted voice users are given higher priority access to the channel, based on the fact that maintaining the QoS requirements of admitted voice calls is more important than admitting new voice calls. The dedicated contention period for admitted voice users is contention backoff window whose size is dynamically adjusted on the basis of estimation of the number of contending voice users. In addition, a two-state Markov model is derived for the proposed scheme to analyze the VoIP capacity. Both analysis and simulation results demonstrate that SRPA significantly improves the VoIP capacity while guaranteeing the strict QoS requirements of admitted voice calls in WLANs.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications - 10th International Conference, WASA 2015, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages123-133
Volume9204
ISBN (Print)9783319218366
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2015 - Qufu, China
Duration: 10 Aug 201512 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9204
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2015
PlaceChina
CityQufu
Period10/08/1512/08/15

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Research Keywords

  • Hybrid MAC
  • QoS
  • Soft reservation
  • VoIP
  • WLANs

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