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Download fileA control theoretic approach to achieve proportional fairness in 802.11e EDCA WLANs
journal contribution
posted on 2015-09-14, 09:51 authored by Shuang-Hua Yang, Xiaomin Chen, Ib AkinyemiThis paper considers proportional fairness amongst ACs in an EDCA WLAN redfor provision of distinct QoS requirements and priority parameters. A detailed theoretical analysis is provided to derive the optimal station attempt probability which leads to a proportional fair allocation of station throughputs. The desirable fairness can be achieved using a centralised adaptive
control approach. This approach is based on multivariable statespace control theory and uses the Linear Quadratic Integral
(LQI) controller to periodically update CWmin till the optimal fair point of operation. Performance evaluation demonstrates that the control approach has high accuracy performance and fast convergence speed for general network scenarios. To our knowledge this might be the first time that a closed-loop control
system is designed for EDCA WLANs to achieve proportional fairness.
Funding
This work was conducted as part of the project ISSEWATUS (issewatus.eu) and has been financially funded by European Commission through the FP7 program (Grant agreement no:619228).
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