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WLAN-IEEE802.11 Tutorial (Maximilian Riegel), 021018-wlan-tutorial.ppt

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IEEE802.11e: MAC Enhancements
for Quality of Service (HCF)

– only usable in infrastructure QoS network configurations
– to be used during both the contention period (CP) and the

contention free period (CFP)

– uses a QoS-aware point coordinator („hybrid coordinator“)

• by default collocated with the enhanced access point (QAP)

• uses the point coordinator's higher priority to allocate

transmission opportunities (TxOPs) to stations

– meets predefined service rate, delay and/or jitter

requirements of particular traffic flows.

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HCF (Hybrid coordination function)

Caused long delays in standardization process due to its
complexity

Recently widely supported „Fast –Track“ proposal to come
to a conclusion in TGe

Most complex functions eliminated, streamlined HCF, ...