The Novel Contention Window Control Scheme for IEEE 802.11 Mac Protocol

Author

Balador, Ali ; Movaghar, Ali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Islamic Azad Univ., Tehran, Iran

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

24-25 April 2010

Firstpage

134

Lastpage

137

Abstract

The IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) protocol defines a contention-based distribution channel access mechanism that shares the wireless medium for mobile stations. In this paper, we present a novel back off mechanism, which divides contention window range to the different level based on the history of channel status. Instead of doubling and resetting the CW, we change the CW range by taking into account last three channel states. We test the new scheme against legacy IEEE 802.11 with NS-2 network simulator. The simulation results have shown 30.77% improvement in packet delivery ratio and 31.76% in delay and 30.81% in throughput compared to the IEEE 802.11 DCF.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; ad hoc networks; mobile computing; CW range; IEEE 802.11; Mac protocol; NS-2 network simulator; channel states; contention window control; contention-based distribution channel; medium access control protocol; wireless network; Computer networks; Protocols; Wireless communication; IEEE 802.11; Mac layer; backoff; mobile ad hoc network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks Security Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing (NSWCTC), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4011-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6598-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSWCTC.2010.167

Filename

5480703