Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2007)
Analysis and optimization of MAC with constant size congestion window for WLAN
Cap Esterel, France
August 25-August 31
ISBN: 0-7695-2938-0
In the context of radio distributed networks, we present a generalized approach for the Medium Access Control (MAC) with fixed congestion window. Our protocol is quite simple to analyze and can be used in a lot of different situations. We give mathematical evidence showing that our performance is tight, in the sense that no protocol with fixed congestion window can do better. We also place ourselves in the WiFi/WiMAX framework, and show experimental results enlightening collision reduction of 14% to 21% compared the best known methods. We show channel capacity improvement, and fairness considerations.