A Review of De-Facto MAC Standard: IEEE 802.11 DCF

Author

Hans, Swati ; Nayyar, Ashutosh

Author_Institution

CST, Central Univ. of Punjab, Bathinda, India

fYear

2014

fDate

8-9 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

372

Lastpage

376

Abstract

Advancement in the wireless networking technologies has drastically changed our world and has led us to new direction of "Infrastructure-less networking- Mobile Adhoc Networks". MANETs is a troupe of mobile nodes tied by wireless links in peer to peer fashion. Mobile nodes in MANETs often struggle for the wireless medium access. IEEE have defines certain rules for the medium access control (MAC). IEEE 802.11 DCF is a de-facto MAC standard. These rules have been laid down at MAC sub layer of link layer of TCP/IP reference model. One interesting research area in MANETs is MAC. This article provides a brief review of IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC standard.

Keywords

access protocols; mobile ad hoc networks; peer-to-peer computing; radio links; transport protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC standard; MAC sublayer; MANET; TCP-IP reference model; de-facto MAC standard; infrastructure-less networking-; link layer; mobile adhoc networks; mobile nodes; peer to peer fashion; wireless links; wireless medium access control; wireless networking technologies; Ad hoc networks; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Mobile computing; Peer-to-peer computing; Protocols; Wireless communication; DCF; IEEE; MAC; MANETs; NAV; carrier sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Computing & Communication Technologies (ACCT), 2014 Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rohtak

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACCT.2014.19

Filename

6783481