DocumentCode
414715
Title
Concatenation and piggyback mechanisms for the IEEE 802.11 MAC
Author
Xiao, Yang
Author_Institution
Comput. Sci. Div., Memphis Univ., TN, USA
Volume
3
fYear
2004
fDate
21-25 March 2004
Firstpage
1642
Abstract
The IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) is a very robust protocol for the best-effort service in the wireless medium. However, many studies have been reported that it is not very efficient. One of the fundamental problems of MAC inefficiency is overhead. In this paper, we propose two novel mechanisms to reduce overhead of the IEEE 802.11 protocols: a concatenation mechanism and a piggyback mechanism. Performance analysis is conducted with simulations. Studies show that both proposed schemes have greatly improved the system performance.
Keywords
access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; wireless LAN; CSMA-CA; IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol; best-effort service; concatenation mechanism; distributed coordination function; medium access control; piggyback mechanism; wireless LAN; Access protocols; Analytical models; Concatenated codes; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Robust control; System performance; TCPIP; Throughput; Wireless LAN;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. WCNC. 2004 IEEE
ISSN
1525-3511
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8344-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WCNC.2004.1311799
Filename
1311799
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