On optimization of CSMA/CA based wireless LANs: Part I - Impact of exponential backoff

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2089-2094

  Medepalli, Kamesh ^a   Tobagi, Fouad A ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR ANALYSIS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTENTION WINDOW (CWMIN); CWMIN OPTIMIZATION;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 42549169041     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.255078     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. L. Kleinrock and F. A. Tobagi, Packet Switching in Radio Channels: Part I - Carrier Sense Multiple Access and their Throughput-Delay Characteristics, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 23, Issue: 13, Dec 1975, pp. 1417-1433.
2. R.M. Metcalfe and D.R. Boggs, Ethernet: Distributed packet switching for local computer networks, Comm. ACM, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 395-404, July 1976.
3. T. A. Gonsalves and F.A. Tobagi, On the performance effects of station locations and access protocol parameters in Ethernet networks, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 36, April 1988, pp. 441-449.
4. G. Bianchi, L. Fratta and M. Oliveri, Performance evaluation and enhancement of the CSMA/CA MAC protocol for 802.11 wireless LANs, Proceedings of PIMRC 1996, pp. 392-396.
5. G. Bianchi, Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function, JSAC Wireless Series, vol. 18, no. 3, 2000.
6. D.J. Aldous, Ultimate instability of exponential back-off protocol for acknowledgement-based transmission control of random access communication channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 219-223, March 1987.
7. J. Goodman, A.G. Greenberg, N. Madras, and P. March, Stability of binary exponential backoff, J. ACM, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 579-602, 1988.
8. K. Medepalli and F.A. Tobagi, Towards Performance Modeling of IEEE 802.11 based Wireless Networks: A Unified Framework and Its Applications, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2006.
9. B-J Kwak, N-O Song and L.E. Miller, Performance Analysis of Exponential Backoff, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 343-355, April 2005.
10. F. Cali, M. Conti and E. Gregori, Dynamic tuning of the IEEE 802.11 protocol to achieve a theoretical throughput limit, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Dec. 2000, pp. 785-799.
11. F. Cali, M. Conti and E. Gregori, IEEE 802.11 protocol: design and performance evaluation of an adaptive backoff mechanism, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Comm., Sept. 2000, pp. 1774-1786.
12. G. Bianchi and I. Tinnirello, Kalman Filter Estimation of the Number of Competing Terminals in an IEEE 802.11 Network, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2003.
13. A. Kumar, E. Altman, D. Miorandi and M. Goyal, New Insights from a Fixed Point Analysis of Single Cell IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005.
14. A. Heindl, R. German. The Impact of Backoff, EIFS, and Beacons on the Performance of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs, Proceedings of 4th International Computer Performance and Dependability Symp., 2000.
15. K.K. Ramakrishnan and H. Yang, The Ethernet Capture Effect: Analysis and Solution, Proceedings of 19th Local Computer Networks Conference, October 1994.
16. K. Medepalli and F.A. Tobagi, Throughput Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs using an Average Cycle Time Approach, To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2005.
17. K. Medepalli, F.A. Tobagi, D. Famolari and T. Kodama, On Optimization of CSMA/CA based Wireless LANs: Part-II - Mitigating Efficiency Loss, Proceedings of ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.