A CLASSIFIED MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN IEEE 802.11AH NETWORKS

Abstract

With increasing traffic demands associated with heterogeneous traffic profiles in the networks supported by IEEE 802.11ah, uncontrollable packet delay still remains an open issue. Previous works have mainly focused on reduction of network collision, and classification of stations based on major services they subscribe to. However, dynamic nature of the traffic heterogeneity associated with stations in IEEE 802.11ah were not considered. This work presents a classified media access control algorithm that takes the dynamic schedule of traffic into consideration. Preliminary results show that the scheme is able to reduce end-to-end packet delays for real-time services.