Title :
Improving DCF in IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN
Author :
Wang, Guanghong ; Shu, Yantai ; Zhang, Liang ; Yang, Oliver W W
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tianjin Univ., China
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a modification to DCF (distributed coordination function) to improve the channel utilization in IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN. In the modified DCF, once a station has contended for the channel, it may transmit multiple data frames continuously to the same destination. We call the process TB (transmission burst). The theoretical analysis and the simulation results show that the performance of the modified DCF can be better than that of the standard DCF. In addition, the modification does not introduce any additional control overhead.
Keywords :
channel allocation; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11; channel utilization improvement; distributed coordination function; local-area network; multiple data frame transmission; transmission burst; wireless LAN; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Collision avoidance; Computer science; Performance analysis; Queueing analysis; Traffic control; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7781-8
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2003.1226044
