In nowadays, wireless local area networks have become more popular due to availability of affordable devices that are capable of communicating at high data rates. With the rapid development of the Internet in the last decade, the role of wireless loca...
In nowadays, wireless local area networks have become more popular due to availability of affordable devices that are capable of communicating at high data rates. With the rapid development of the Internet in the last decade, the role of wireless local area network for users to access the Internet has become more important.The IEEE 802.11 wireless media access standard supports multiple data rates at the physical layer. Thus, various auto rate adaptation mechanisms at the medium access layer have been proposed to utilize this multi-rate capability by automatically adapting the transmission rate to best match the channel conditions. A lot of results have been existed from many studies about increasing performance in 802.11 Wireless LAN. These are normally focusing on contention based MAC protocol which operates when a collision is being happened in the medium.We have effort to enhance performance with getting concerning about link environment in 802.11 Wireless LAN. The link adaptation technology known as core skill of the 3G4G change transmission method for increasing system throughput and enhancing channel error rate through channel variation.In this thesis, variable link adaptation protocols have been introduced and new link adaptation techniques have been proposed. WLAN system’s coverage has to be extended more largely and has to support mobility within high data rate for getting better position in future communication market. For achieving those goals link adaptation technique for recovering channel variation have to be continuously studied and developed. Proposed idea comes from saying above. We studied received SNR based link adaptation protocol and added a few function to exited protocol for improving performance. Firstly, we has to make function to guarantee fairness. Since latest protocol has just focused on improving performance it has some drawback and we have to find a solution. We choose the way which is TXOP limitation. TXOP limitation was announced by 802.11e working group because they wanted to control traffic priority with this. Anyway, we thought it is a good method to control transmission opportunity when one user being good channel transmits continuously. Next, we consider the way for enhancing protocol. It is dynamic fragmentation and aggregation. We thought if channel condition get worse long packet could be important reason for occurring error more frequently. Thus, we have proposed new function of dynamic fragmentation as channel variation with ACK message. In addition to cutting packet adaptively, we have considered assembling small packets. We have named new protocol ODPB (Opportunistically Dynamic Packet Bursting) and have performed system simulation with using C language in 802.11b specification. We executed simulation in variable scenarios.We firstly approved performance of APB protocol with TXOP limitation to guarantee fairness. We have done limitation of transmission by executing upper bound and under bound. When we executed under TXOP limitation we accept not only satisfaction of guaranteeing fairness requirement, but also improvement of total throughput. We generally thought that to satisfy fairness requirement means loss of throughput performance. However, DCF MAC is based CSMACA how to access medium. Thus, under bound get effect that unnecessary contention time is reduced. When function of upper TXOP limitation is inserted APB guarantee as time sharing fairness as DCF and bring better throughput performance than OAR protocol.Next, we looked into the effects of dynamic fragmentation and aggregation. Those effects have been turned up with increasing throughput performance and improving robustness of channel variation. We approve that changing variable transmission packet size according to channel condition make link adaptation protocol more advance: increasing throughput performance and supporting mobility. In this thesis, experiment has been performed with 802.11b system model. However, actually the devices of 802.11a or 802.11g are been used by many people in nowadays and 802.11 a and 802.11 g not only allow user to transmit higher data rate than 802.11b does, but also support more variable data rate. Thus, we expect our proposed protocol will also show improvement of system performance. This topic is remained for future work.