The effect of finite population on IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs throughput/delay performance

Author

Ziouva, Eustathia ; Antonakopoulos, Theodore

Author_Institution

Comput. Technol. Inst., Patras Univ., Greece

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

99

Abstract

The theoretical performance of CSMA/CA, as it is used in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, is investigated in this paper. We adopt and modify a previously presented analytical approach for CSMA/CA protocols in wireless LANs with a finite number of stations and find closed-form equations for throughput and delay. The presented numerical results highlight the characteristics of both CSMA/CA methods and define how their performance depends on the number of stations and on traffic conditions.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; delays; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; CSMA/CA protocols; IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs; carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance; closed-form equations; delay performance; finite population; throughput performance; Access protocols; Collision avoidance; Delay effects; Equations; Local area networks; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 2002. MELECON 2002. 11th Mediterranean

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7527-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014537

Filename

1014537