ANALYTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF WLANS FOR QUALITY-OF-SERVICE WITH ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT

Design of an Active Queue Management scheme at the Access Point to address the problem of congestion control, packet delay variation and packet loss rate is discussed. The proposed mechanism calculates and adjusts redundancy rate adaptively at the access point by considering both network traffic load and wireless channel condition. Real-time applications such as Mobile learning and smart learning need the special treatment and require differentiated QoS to satisfy the client who is ready to pay more than others. Maintaining the jitter value of the multimedia packets below the threshold is essential to guarantee the desirable quality of the video at the receiver. The work initially concentrates on minimizing the packet loss of such priority flows and they have to be given place in the queue even at the time of buffer overflow. Thus the proposed work uses push-out policy to provide differentiated services to the multimedia flow which achieves considerable improvement in the video quality at the receiver. The considerable decrease in packet loss rate and special treatment in the queue of the access point lowers the packet delay variation of the multimedia flow. The results show that the AQM used at the access point effectively achieves low packet loss, low jitter using differentiated FEC rate calculation without generating congestion in the wireless network.