Publication date: Available online 10 February 2015
Source:Physical Communication
Author(s): Oran Sharon , Yaron Alpert
We consider a single WiFi cell in which multiple mobile stations transmit multiple QoS constrained Application flows to the Access Point. We investigate the efficiency of using RTS/CTS in the face of the QoS constraints, in various Access Categories that are defined in the WiFi standard, in different number of transmitting stations and in various amounts of aggregation. We show that using RTS/CTS is efficient in terms of Throughput, when there are collisions and the time to recover these collisions is within the Delay/Loss constraints of the Application flows. It turns out that RTS/CTS is most efficient in the Video and Voice Access Categories and Delay constrains in the order of several tens of mili-seconds. For smaller Delay constraints it is more efficient without RTS/CTS. Thus, we show the existence of cross-points: In Delay constraints smaller than the cross points it is more efficient without RTS/CTS and beyond the cross-points the opposite is true.
Source:Physical Communication
Author(s): Oran Sharon , Yaron Alpert