Token- and self-policing-based scheduling for multimedia traffic transmission over WLANsToken- and self-policing-based scheduling for multimedia traffic transmission over WLANs Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές 2015-10-262011enThe worldwide popularity of wireless local area networks (WLANs) calls for efficient solutions in scheduling multimedia (voice, data, and video) traffic transmissions. Enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA), which is the contention-based channel access function of IEEE 802.11e, is unable to guarantee priority access to higher priority traffic in the presence of significant traffic loads from low-priority users. In this paper, we propose the use of a token- and self-policing-based scheduling scheme, which not only addresses this problem but also prevents bursty video nodes from overusing the medium and tackles the problem of idle time due to large transmission opportunities (TXOPs).Δημοσίευση σε επιστημονικό περιοδικό http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology9604520 - 4527 Koutsakis Polychronis Κουτσακης Πολυχρονης Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802.11e MPEG-4 video medium access control (MAC) multimedia traffic wireless local area networks (WLANs)