November 2003

doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/972r0

Use of EDCA Access During HCF Polling

Mathilde Benveniste benveniste@ieee.org, Avaya Labs

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Slide 1

Avaya Labs

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doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/972r0

INTRODUCTION According to D5.0, a station with an active TS (admitted TSPEC request) may not send EDCF frames generated by that TS if the Access Policy bit does not allow it This is overly restrictive Use of EDCF under certain conditions would simplify poll scheduling EDCF access will not be used indiscriminately by polled traffic streams

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Slide 2

Avaya Labs

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doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/972r0

INTRODUCTION continued Following comment resolution, a station with an active TS (admitted TSPEC request) may send EDCF frames generated by that TS if the Access Policy bit allow it A greedy station would have the incentive to set up a TS for polled access to use in case the EDCA access causes delay This is overly wasteful of bandwidth, as polls would thus be returned unanswered

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Slide 3

Avaya Labs

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doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/972r0

Conditions when EDCF access is permitted for polled traffic A station may send a frame from an admitted TS using EDCF under the following conditions:
Error recovery: if the ack to a previously transmitted frame is not received If its poll is missed: if a poll does not arrive within the required time interval

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Avaya Labs

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doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/972r0

Motion
Adopt the following normative text changes in Clause 9.9.2.3 of the TGe draft: HCF contention-based channel access shall not be used to transmit MSDUs belonging to traffic streams unless the granted TSPEC indicates it is permitted using the Access Policy bit of the TS Info field, and one of the following two conditions holds:

1. 2.

The MSDU has been sent previously but an acknowledgement has not been received The poll for the MSDU is missing; i.e., a poll has not been received by the non-AP QSTA within a time interval since the time of the last -received poll that is equal to the maximum service interval.

When frames associated with a TSPEC are transmitted over contentionbased channel access, they shall use the AC associated with the UP specified in the TSPEC. ____________________________________ Note: Deleted text is in red underlined.
Submission Slide 5 Avaya Labs