A broadcast control MAC strategy for wireless LAN

Author

Liu, Haiping ; Liu, Jianming ; Lee, Tony T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

1786

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol, namely broadcast control (BC) protocol, to enhance the standard IEEE 802.11. In our BC protocol, the access point (AP) collects the contention information of the mobile stations and sends back the optimized control information to guarantee that the communication overhead of the whole wireless local area network (WLAN) maintains in low level. The BC protocol can be implemented by making some negligible modification of standard 802.11 protocols. The performance of BC strategy is compared with the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocols via extensive simulations, which show that BC strategy can significantly elevate the efficiency regardless the number of active mobile stations in the WLAN

Keywords

access protocols; mobile radio; telecommunication congestion control; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 standard; access point; broadcast control MAC strategy; communication overhead; mobile stations; wireless LAN; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Broadcasting; Communication system control; Degradation; Media Access Protocol; Mobile communication; Multiaccess communication; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2005. PIMRC 2005. IEEE 16th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

9.7838007291e+012

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2005.1651749

Filename

1651749