Abstract-The IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) for Quality-of-Service (QoS) support in 802.11 networks defines burst transmission and new acknowledgment (ACK) operations as optional mechanisms for increasing channel utilization. In this paper, we investigate how the performance of these new features is affected by the presence of fiber delay in high speed Wireless LAN (WLAN) over fiber networks. It is shown that the negative effect of the fiber delay on the throughput performance of the 802.11 MAC protocol can be significantly reduced when burst transmission is used with the Block or the No ACK policies. Index Terms-IEEE 802.11e, medium access control, Radio over Fiber, wireless LAN.
In REF , the authors research the impact that fiber delay has on the performance of the acknowledgment policies in fiber-fed WLANs.
Use of Different Acknowledgement Policies for Burst Transmission in Fiber-fed Wireless LANs
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Communications Letters
Computer Science