CSMA/ECA is a contention protocol that makes it possible to construct a collision-free schedule by using a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions. In this paper, we further enhance the CSMA/ECA protocol with two properties that allows to fairly accommodate a large number of contenders in a collision-free schedule. The first property, called hysteresis, instructs the contenders not to reset their contention window after successful transmissions. Thanks to hysteresis, the protocol sustains a high throughput regardless of the number of contenders. The second property, called fair-share, preserves fairness when different nodes use different contention windows. We present simulations results that evidence how these properties account for performance gains that go even further beyond CSMA/CA.
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@article{arxiv.1302.1697,
title = {Fairness in Collision-Free WLANs},
author = {Luis Sanabria-Russo and Jaume Barcelo and Boris Bellalta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1697},
year = {2013}
}