Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11 WLAN - high speed packet wireless data network for supporting voice service
Changle Li, Jiandong Li, Xuelian Cai · 2004
The IEEE 802.11 standard MAC is a hybrid protocol of random access and polling when both DCF (distributed coordination function) and PCF (point coordination function) are used. This paper evaluates the performance of the MAC protocol for integrated data and voice transmission with the two access mechanisms. By simulation, we evaluate the network performance for various values of the protocol parameters. Especially, voice traffic is sensitive to delay jitter and here we point out the main factors to influence it. Numerical results show that it is important to choose appropriate parameters and we should compromise the number of the voice stations and the data traffic throughput to get the enhanced performance of IEEE 802.11. Finally, the performance of protocol in theory is derived and is verified by the simulation results.