A novel random backoff algorithm to enhance the performance of IEEE 802.11 DCF

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-44

  Li, Yun ^a,b   Long, Ke Ping ^a,b,d   Zhao, Wei Liang ^a,b,c   Chen, Qian Bin ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d IEEE   (China)

Author keywords

802.11 DCF; Binary exponential backoff; Markov chain model; Random walking backoff

Indexed keywords

802.11 DCF; BINARY EXPONENTIAL BACKOFF; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; RANDOM WALKING BACKOFF;

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 29144534279     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-006-6176-8     Document Type: Article

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