Performance Evaluation of 802.11e with typical data rates

Abstract

The type of the applications for which Internet is being used has changed dramatically over the years. Some of the applications require the network to provide Quality of Service (QOS). IEEE 802.11e is the QOS extension of the Wireless Local Area Network standard IEEE 802.11. This paper does the performance evaluation of 802.11e with voice, video, data and background traffic. The data rates and packet sizes considered are those used in the real environment. The results show that the 802.11e achieves service differentiation. NS2 is used as a network simulator.

Keywords -QOS, Normalized throughput, IEEE 802.11e, ns2, evaluation

Nigerian Journal of Technological Research vol 7(1) 2012