Revisiting Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA)

Author

Peng, Jun ; Cheng, Liang

Author_Institution

CSE Dept., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 March 2006

Firstpage

1236

Lastpage

1241

Abstract

Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) is one of the basic medium access control (MAC) protocols specified in the popular IEEE 802.11 standard. One important feature of CSMA/CA is its use of in-band control frames for dealing with hidden terminals and reducing the cost of potential collisions. However, control frames have limited effectiveness in dealing with hidden terminals. Moreover, they introduce significant overhead into the network. This paper proposes a novel approach to addressing these two disadvantages of in-band control frames and significantly improve the performance of the CSMA/CA protocol.

Keywords

access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; telecommunication congestion control; wireless LAN; CSMA-CA; IEEE 802.11 standard; MAC protocol; carrier sense multiple access; collision avoidance; medium access control; Access protocols; Attenuation; Collision avoidance; Costs; Electronic mail; Fading; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; CSMA/CA; carrier sense; hidden terminals; medium access control (MAC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Sciences and Systems, 2006 40th Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0349-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0350-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISS.2006.286654

Filename

4067995