• DocumentCode
    1696176
  • Title

    Analyzing and improving the IEEE 802.11-MAC protocol for wireless LANs

  • Author

    Weinmiller, Jost ; Woesner, Hagen ; Wolisz, Adam

  • Author_Institution
    Dept, of Electr. Eng., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    1996
  • Firstpage
    200
  • Lastpage
    206
  • Abstract
    The MAC-part of the upcoming IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless LANs-named DFWMAC is based on a CSMA/CA-type access protocol with a rotating backoff window and an optional RTS/CTS message exchange. In this paper, following a short presentation of DFWMAC we present the results of our simulative analysis of DFWMAC focussing on analysis and improvements of the basic key mechanisms-the RTS/CTS message exchange and the backoff algorithm
  • Keywords
    IEEE standards; access protocols; local area networks; wireless LAN; CSMA/CA; DFWMAC; IEEE 802.11; MAC protocol; RTS/CTS message exchange; access protocol; backoff algorithm; message exchange; rotating backoff window; wireless LANs; Access protocols; Collision avoidance; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Physical layer; Proposals; Traffic control; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 1996. MASCOTS '96., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7235-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MASCOT.1996.501018
  • Filename
    501018