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QoS Provisioning for Wireless LANs With Multi-Beam Access Point

Recently, the integration of smart antenna technology into existing wireless local area networks (WLANs) has been one of the hot spots of research work. In this paper, we design an IEEE 802.11-compliant medium access control (MAC) protocol, named M-HCCA, that fully takes advantage of multi-beam smart antennas equipped at the access point (AP) to not only boost the overall capacity of a WLAN, but also support quality-of-service (QoS) and power conservation for individual mobile users. Specifically, M-HCCA has the following attractive features: (i) since being a polling-based MAC scheme, M-HCCA can innately conquer the problems induced by carrier sensing or directional signals, including beam-synchronization constraint, receiver blocking problem, and unnecessary defer problem; (ii) M-HCCA achieves high real-time throughput by adaptively adjusting the sector configuration to quickly resolve contention/collision and to increase data transmission parallelism; (iii) M-HCCA employs beam-location-aware polling scheduling to not only solve the beam-overlapping problem and back/side-lobe problem, but also let real-time stations save as much energy as possible; (iv) M-HCCA adopts the mobile-assisted admission control technique such that the AP can admit as many newly streams as possible while not violating QoS guarantees made to already-admitted streams; (v) M-HCCA offers a location updating mechanism to promptly renew the beam-location information of a non-responsive station such that the miss-hit problem can be effectively alleviated. Extensive simulation results show that, in terms of throughput, real-time throughput, and energy throughput, M-HCCA significantly outperforms existing protocols even in uneven station distribution, imperfect beam-forming, and high mobility environments.