QoS Provisioning in WLAN Mesh Networks Using Dynamic Bandwidth Control
Conference: European Wireless 2008 - 14th European Wireless Conference
06/22/2008 - 06/25/2008 at Prague, Czech Republic
Proceedings: European Wireless 2008
Pages: 7Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Hock, D.; Pries, R.; Staehle, D. (Department of Distributed Systems, University of Würzburg, Germany)
Bayer, N.; Siebert, M.; Xu, B. (Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems, Darmstadt, Germany)
Rakocevic, V. (School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University, London, UK)
Abstract:
WLAN, based on the IEEE 802.11 standard has been extensively studied since its release. In addition to infrastructure access to WLAN, mesh networks currently attract a lot of attention. This comes from the envisioned advantages of wireless mesh networks, such as cheap installation costs, extended coverage, robustness, easy maintenance, and self-configuration possibilities. In this paper we focus on Quality of Service support for multimedia applications in WLAN-based mesh networks. Therefore, a dynamic bandwidth control mechanism is implemented on the network layer and the results show that high prioritized traffic can be protected from disturbing best effort traffic.