Adaptive Per Hop Differentiation for End-to-End Delay Assurance in Multihop Wireless Networks

As the rapid growth of smart hand-held devices, multihop wireless access networks have a lot of potential applications in a variety of fields in civilian and military environments. Many of these applications, such as realtime audio/video streaming, will require some form of end-to-end QoS assurance. This paper presents an Adaptive Per Hop Differentiation (APHD) scheme towards achieving end-to-end delay assurance in multihop wireless networks. The scheme is based on EDCA technique which is proposed in 802.11e draft. In EDCA, data packets of different priorities will use different MAC contention parameter set, which translate into different delays.