Single hop IEEE 802.11 DCF analysis revisited: Accurate modeling of channel access delay and throughput for saturated and unsaturated traffic cases

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3256-3266

  Felemban, Emad ^a   Ekici, Eylem ^b  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

DCF; IEEE 802.11; Modeling; non saturation; performance analysis; saturation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ACCURATE MODELING; ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; ANALYTICAL MODEL; BACK-OFF; CHANNEL ACCESS; CHANNEL STATE; CHANNEL THROUGHPUT; CLASSICAL MODEL; COLLISION PROBABILITY; DCF; IEEE 802.11 DCF; IEEE 802.11 DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTIONS; IEEE 802.11S; ITERATIVE APPROACH; LOAD ANALYSIS; MAC PROTOCOL; NON-SATURATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION; PROTOCOL OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE-HOP; TRAFFIC LOADS;

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; STANDARDS; THROUGHPUT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80855123859     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.072511.101227     Document Type: Article

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