  The latest IEEE 802.11 amendments provide support to directional
communications in the Millimeter Wave spectrum and, thanks to the wide
bandwidth available at such frequencies, makes it possible to wirelessly
approach several emergent use cases, such as virtual and augmented reality,
telepresence, and remote control of industrial facilities. However, these
applications require stringent Quality of Service, that only contention-free
scheduling algorithms can guarantee. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end
framework for the joint admission control and scheduling of periodic traffic
streams over mmWave Wireless Local Area Networks based on Network Simulator 3,
a popular full-stack open-source network simulator. Moreover, we design a
baseline algorithm to handle scheduling requests, and we evaluate its
performance with a full-stack perspective. The algorithm is tested in three
scenarios, where we investigated different configurations and features to
highlight the differences and trade-offs between contention-based and
contention-free access strategies.
