Performance of CSMA-CA MAC protocol for distributed radio local area networks

Author

Sulaiman Mohd Nor

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

27-29 Sep 1995

Firstpage

912

Abstract

Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA-CA) will be used as the basic medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless LANs. Wireless LAN will be supporting two types of services, time bounded and asynchronous data transmission. In this paper we present simulation results for throughput and delays for a distributed radio LAN for different values of inter frame spacing periods, transmission speeds and number of nodes. Depending on the application, the results obtained suggest that proper inter frame space values have to be chosen for optimal network performance

Keywords

access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; channel capacity; delays; performance evaluation; wireless LAN; CSMA-CA MAC protocol; asynchronous data transmission; carrier sense multiple access; collision avoidance; delays; distributed radio LAN; distributed radio local area networks; inter frame spacing periods; medium access control protocol; optimal network performance; throughput; time bounded; transmission speed; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Cables; Collision avoidance; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Peer to peer computing; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1995. PIMRC'95. Wireless: Merging onto the Information Superhighway., Sixth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3002-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1995.480999

Filename

480999