Analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF for ad hoc networks: Saturation

Author

Abbas, Ash Mohammad ; Soufy, Khaled Abdullah Mohd Al

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Aligarh Muslim Univ., Aligarh, India

fYear

2011

fDate

12-13 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Generally, IEEE 802.11 DCF is used as a MAC layer protocol to form an ad hoc network as it enables one to configure a mobile host either in ad hoc mode or infrastructure mode. In this paper, we carry out an analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF for an ad hoc network under saturation conditions. We focus on the average end-to-end delay, throughput, and the loss probability for single hop as well as multiple hops along a path from a given source to a destination. We study the effect of collision probability, probability of packet transmissions, the transmission range/carrier sense range, and the number of buffers in the queue.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; probability; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 DCF analysis; MAC layer protocol; ad hoc networks; average end-to-end delay; collision probability effect; loss probability; mobile host; packet transmission probability; transmission range-carrier sense range; Ad hoc networks; Analytical models; Delay; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Spread spectrum communication; Steady-state; Throughput; Ad hoc network; IEEE 802.11 DCF; multihop analysis; saturation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Multimedia Systems Architecture and Application (IMSAA), 2011 IEEE 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore, Karnataka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1329-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMSAA.2011.6156343

Filename

6156343