With the advent of the IEEE 802.11 wireless networks that provide
high speed connectivity, demand for supporting multiple real-time
traffic applications over wireless LANs has been increasing.
A natural question is how to provide fair resource allocation to
real-time traffic in wireless LANs. Wireless networks are subject
to unpredictable location-dependent error bursts, which is different
from wired networks. We propose a fair real-time scheduling model
whose goal is to minimize the maximum loss rate among all the flows
and additionally to maximize the overall throughput. We develop
algorithms for this scheduling model that takes the wireless channel
error characteristics into consideration.
