ENSC 835 Project Proposal – Spring 2002

Ivy Chow ischow@sfu.ca

Horace Yat-Hong Chan horace_chan@pmc-sierra.com

Sameer Khushal skhushal@sfu.ca

Forward error control (FEC) is not specified in the current 802.11b Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) standard. This project is to investigate the application of FEC to archive better TCP performance over wireless LAN. Simulation will be carried out in OPNET to model the FEC performance without implementing the actual coding algorithms.

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[2] Gilbert Held, The ABCs of IEEE 802.11, IT Professionals, pp. 49-52, November 2001

[3] A. Burr, Turbo-codes: the ultimate error control codes?, Electronics & Communication Engineering Journal, pp.155-165, August 2001

[4] Ian F. Akyidiz et al, An Adaptive FEC Scheme for Data Traffic in Wireless ATM Networks, IEEE/ACM Transcations on Networking, pp.419-425, August 2001

[5] Brett Schein and Steven Bernstein, A Forward Error Control Scheme for GBS and BADD, MILCOM 97 Proceedings, pp.710-715, Volume 2, 1997