Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function

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Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (2000)

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by Giuseppe Bianchi

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@MISC{Bianchi00performanceanalysis,
    author = {Giuseppe Bianchi},
    title = {Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function},
    year = {2000}
}

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Abstract

Recently, the IEEE has standardized the 802.11 protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks. The primary medium access control (MAC) technique of 802.11 is called distributed coordination function (DCF). DCF is a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheme with binary slotted exponential backoff. This paper provides a simple, but nevertheless extremely accurate, analytical model to compute the 802.11 DCF throughput, in the assumption of finite number of terminals and ideal channel conditions. The proposed analysis applies to both the packet transmission schemes employed by DCF, namely, the basic access and the RTS/CTS access mechanisms. In addition, it also applies to a combination of the two schemes, in which packets longer than a given threshold are transmitted according to the RTS/CTS mechanism. By means of the proposed model, in this paper we provide an extensive throughput performance evaluation of both access mechanisms of the 802.11 protocol.

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distributed coordination function performance analysis collision avoidance csma ca basic access analysis applies packet transmission scheme finite number ideal channel condition rts ct mechanism wireless local area network rts ct access mechanism extensive throughput performance evaluation index term exponential backoff access mechanism performance evaluation carrier sense multiple access dcf throughput primary medium access control analytical model abstract recently

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