Design and implementation of a rate-scalable wireless local area network

Peng Yong Kong, Jia Yao, Shengming Jiang

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Abstract

Future wireless local area networks are to support a wide spectrum of devices that run different applications with widely-different traffic characteristics. For example, a motion sensor may generate traffic at a rate of a few bytes every second while a video player may transmit a few Mbps. Considering the fact that data packets are transmitted in bursts at the peak transmission rate, different devices should have different peak transmission rates as long as the rate is sufficient to ensure the packets can be delivered within a reasonable delay. The main advantages of making different devices to have different peak transmission rate are: (a) Devices with a low data rate can be built for a lower peak transmission rate at a lower cost, and (b) Device with a lower battery capacity can be built for a lower peak transmission rate to converse power. We call this type of networks that is capable of supporting the co-existence of different peak transmission rates, the rate-scalable wireless local area networks. In is paper, we first propose an architecture for such a rate-scalable network. Next, we describe the hardware implementation of a test-bed based on the proposed architecture. Despite incompleteness of our implementation, a few experiments on the test-bed indicate that a scalable system throughput is achievable.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationICICS-PCM 2003 - Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference of the 4th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing and 4th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1469-1473
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)0780381858, 9780780381858
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
EventJoint Conference of the 4th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing and 4th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, ICICS-PCM 2003 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 15 Dec 200318 Dec 2003

Publication series

NameICICS-PCM 2003 - Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference of the 4th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing and 4th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia
Volume3

Conference

ConferenceJoint Conference of the 4th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing and 4th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, ICICS-PCM 2003
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period15/12/0318/12/03

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