Assessment of the IEEE 802.11e EDCA Protocol Limitations when Dealing with Real-Time Communication

The timing behavior of the EDCA mechanism defined in the IEEE 802.11e standard is analyzed. More specifically, the target of this paper is to evaluate the limitations of the highest priority level of the EDCA mechanism (voice category) when supporting real-time (RT) communication. By RT communicatio...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Moraes, Paulo Portugal, Francisco Vasques, Ricardo F. Custódio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2010-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/351480