Performance evaluation of time slot based QoS aware ad hoc network scheme for CBR and TCP flows

Abstract

We propose a QoS supporting ad hoc network scheme which employs a hybrid approach utilizing both TDMA and 802.11 DCF and present performance evaluation results of the scheme. In the scheme, TDMA period provides contention free transmissions for QoS flows, and DCF period is used to provide contention-based access for best effort or low priority flows. We evaluate the proposed scheme for various numbers of TCP flows and different CBR data rates with QualNet simulator. Simulation results show that the protocol is able to provide an efficient solution for QoS control in ad hoc networks by combing TDMA and 802.11 DCF.