Future Evolution of CSMA Protocols for the IEEE 802.11 Standard
Abstract
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 without additional implementation complexity. Under certain circumstances, it is able to reach and maintain collision-free operation, even when the number of contenders is variable and potentially large. It is backward compatible, allowing for new and legacy stations to coexist without degrading one another's performance, a property that can make the adoption process by future versions of the standard smooth and inexpensive.
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@article{arxiv.1303.3734,
title = {Future Evolution of CSMA Protocols for the IEEE 802.11 Standard},
author = {Luis Sanabria-Russo and Azadeh Faridi and Boris Bellalta and Jaume Barcelo and Miquel Oliver},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3734},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
This paper has been accepted in the Second IEEE ICC Workshop 2013 on Telecommunication Standards: From Research to Standards