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The performance seen by individual clients on a wireless local area network (WLAN) is heavily influenced by the manner in which wireless channel capacity is allocated. The popular MAC protocol DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) used in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Godfrey Tan , John Guttag

Performance assessment and optimization for networks jointly performing caching, computing, and communication (3C) has recently drawn significant attention because many emerging applications require 3C functionality. However, studies in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Ming-Chun Lee , Andreas F. Molisch

This paper presents a modified proportional fairness (PF) criterion suitable for mitigating the \textit{rate anomaly} problem of multirate IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs employing the mandatory Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) option.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-12-18 F. Daneshgaran , M. Laddomada , F. Mesiti , M. Mondin

With the increasing popularity of wireless networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs) have attracted significant research interest, which play a critical role in providing anywhere and anytime connectivity. For WLANs the IEEE 802.11…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Feng Xia , Ruixia Gao , Linqiang Wang , Ruonan Hao

Next generation Wi-Fi networks are expected to support real-time applications that impose strict requirements on the packet transmission delay and packet loss ratio. Such applications form an essential target for the future Wi-Fi standard,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Evgeny Avdotin , Dmitry Bankov , Evgeny Khorov , Andrey Lyakhov

Support of real-time applications that impose strict requirements on packet loss ratio and latency is an essential feature of the next generation Wi-Fi networks. Initially introduced in the 802.11ax amendment to the Wi-Fi standard, uplink…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Evgeny Avdotin , Dmitry Bankov , Evgeny Khorov , Andrey Lyakhov

The IEEE 802.11 backoff algorithm is very important for controlling system throughput over contentionbased wireless networks. For this reason, there are many studies on wireless network performance focus on developing backoff algorithms.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Hatm Alkadeki , Xingang Wang , Michael Odetayo

Recent studies on MAC scheduling have shown that carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) algo- rithms can be throughput optimal for arbitrary wireless network topology. However, these results are highly sensitive to the underlying assumption…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Se-Young Yun , Jinwoo Shin , Yung Yi

Coflow provides a key application-layer abstraction for capturing communication patterns, enabling the efficient coordination of parallel data flows to reduce job completion times in distributed systems. Modern data center networks (DCNs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xin Wang , Hong Shen , Hui Tian , Dong Wang

The standardization of the sixth-generation (6G) has recently commenced to address the rapidly growing demands for enhanced wireless network services. Nevertheless, existing wireless systems, particularly at the physical layer waveform…

In this paper, we consider CSMA policies for scheduling of multihop wireless networks with one-hop traffic. The main contribution of this paper is to propose Unlocking CSMA (U-CSMA) policy that enables to obtain high throughput with low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Mahdi Lotfinezhad , Peter Marbach

In this paper a candidate protocol to replace the prevalent CSMA/CA medium access control in Wireless Local Area Networks is presented. The proposed protocol can achieve higher throughput than CSMA/CA, while maintaining fairness, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Luis Sanabria-Russo , Azadeh Faridi , Boris Bellalta , Jaume Barcelo , Miquel Oliver

In order to meet the ever-increasing demand for high throughput in WiFi networks, the IEEE 802.11ax (11ax) standard introduces orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). In this letter, we address the station-resource unit…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Konstantinos Dovelos , Boris Bellalta

We consider the design of distributed scheduling algorithms that minimize age of information in single-hop wireless networks. The centralized max-weight policy is known to be nearly optimal in this setting; hence, our goal is to design a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Vishrant Tripathi , Nicholas Jones , Eytan Modiano

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) protocols have been shown to reach the full capacity region for data communication in wireless networks, with polynomial complexity. However, current literature achieves the throughput optimality with an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Hongxing Li , Nitin Vaidya

Evolving amendments of 802.11 standards feature a large set of physical and MAC layer control parameters to support the increasing communication objectives spanning application requirements and network dynamics. The significant growth and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Hannaneh Barahouei Pasandi , Tamer Nadeem

Full Duplex (FD) technology is considered as one of the next big leap in the evolution of modern WLANs. Allowing a node to simultaneously transmit a data frame while in receive mode, can theoretically double the system throughput. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Anastasios C. Politis , Constantinos S. Hilas , Hristos T. Anastassiu

The Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) aims at fair and efficient medium access in IEEE 802.11. In face of its success, it is remarkable that there is little consensus on the actual degree of fairness achieved, particularly bearing its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Michael Bredel , Markus Fidler

The IEEE 802.11ac standard introduces new downlink multi-user MIMO (DL-MU-MIMO) transmissions to up to four users in order to increase spatial reuse in wireless local area networks (WLANs). We argue that even better WLAN per- formance can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Katarzyna Kosek-Szott

Future wireless networks will be characterized by heterogeneous traffic requirements. Such requirements can be low-latency or minimum-throughput. Therefore, the network has to adjust to different needs. Usually, users with low-latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Nikolaos Pappas , Anthony Ephremides