Unified Performance Model Research Articles

Unified Performance Model for S-Shaped Characteristics of Pump–Turbines Considering Reverse Flow

Unified Performance Model for S-Shaped Characteristics of Pump–Turbines Considering Reverse Flow

A Unified Model for the Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11e EDCA

Rapid deployment of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs) and their increasing quality of service (QoS) requirements motivate extensive performance evaluations of the upcoming 802.11e QoS-aware enhanced distributed coordination function (EDCA). Most of the analytical studies up-to-date have been based on one of the three major performance models in legacy distributed coordination function analysis, requiring a large degree of complexity in solving multidimensional Markov chains. Here, we expose the common guiding principle behind these three seemingly different models. Subsequently, by abstracting, unifying, and extending this common principle, we propose a new unified performance model and analysis method to study the saturation throughput and delay performance of EDCA, under the assumption of a finite number of stations and ideal channel conditions in a single-hop WLAN. This unified model combines the strengths of all three models, and thus, is easy to understand and apply; on the other hand, it helps increase the understanding of the existing performance analysis. Despite its appealing simplicity, our unified model and analysis are validated very well by simulation results. Ultimately, by means of the proposed model, we are able to precisely evaluate the differentiation effects of EDCA parameters on WLAN performance in very broad settings, a feature which is essential for network design.

A unified performance model for reservation-type multiple-access schemes

This paper presents a unified performance model for an integrated voice/data wireless system using reservation type multiple-access (MA) schemes. It is observed that although these schemes are different in the frame structure and resource assignment procedure, all of them can be described by several common state variables whose evolvement exhibits the Markovian property. Based on this observation, a general Markovian model is developed in this paper. Three performance measures, namely, voice-packet-loss probability, data throughput, and data delay are defined. As a special case, the performance evaluation model for the voice-only system is also presented. Numerical results are given and verified by simulation under both voice-only and integrated scenarios using packet-reservation MA (PRMA), dynamic time-division multiple access (D-TDMA), and resource auction multiple access (RAMA) as examples. It is found that our analytical model is quite accurate, especially in the region of interest. The impact of system parameters (such as the voice-permission probability, data-retransmission probability, maximum number of voice slots per frame, etc.) on the integrated system performance is also investigated for these three example systems.