Effect of Adaptive RTS/CTS ON/OFF Control Method for Mitigating Transmission Overhead of IEEE802.11DCF

Author

Shigeyasu, Tetsuya ; Matsuno, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Hiroshima Int. Univ., Kure, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

4-6 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

627

Lastpage

632

Abstract

IEEE802.11, the widely used wireless LAN standard, employs RTS/CTS handshake to avoid a packet collision with the transmissions from hidden terminals. Although RTS/CTS handshake effectively reduces packet collisions with hidden terminals, it also increases transmission overhead of IEEE802.11. In this paper, we discuss transmission overhead of IEEE802.11 induced by RTS/CTS handshake, and propose a new RTS/CTS On/Off control method for mitigating transmission overhead of IEEE802.11. Results from computer simulations confirm that our proposed method improve throughput performance in around the saturated traffic environment.

Keywords

telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE802.11DCF; RTS/CTS handshake; adaptive RTS/CTS ON/OFF control method; hidden terminals; packet collision; saturated traffic environment; throughput performance; transmission overhead; wireless LAN standard; Computer simulation; Multiaccess communication; Performance evaluation; Receivers; Sensors; Throughput; Wireless LAN; IEEE802.11DCF; RTS/CTS; Transmission overhead;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8448-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4236-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BWCCA.2010.145

Filename

5633226