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Enhancing IEEE 802.11 MAC in congested environments

Abstract

IEEE 802.11 is the most deployed wireless local area networking standard nowadays. It uses carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) to resolve contention between nodes. Contention windows (CW) change dynamically to adapt to the contention level: Upon each collision, a node doubles its CW to reduce further collision risks. Upon a successful transmission, the CW is reset, assuming that the contention level has dropped. However, contention level is more likely to change slowly, and resetting the CW causes new collisions and retransmissions before reaching the optimal value again. This wastes bandwidth and increases delays. In this report we analyze simple slow CW decrease functions and compare their performances to the legacy standard. We use simulations and mathematical modeling to show their considerable outperformance at all contention levels and transient phases.

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inria-00071704 , version 1 (23-05-2006)

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Imad Aad, Qiang Ni, Chadi Barakat, Thierry Turletti. Enhancing IEEE 802.11 MAC in congested environments. [Research Report] RR-4879, INRIA. 2003. ⟨inria-00071704⟩
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