Enhancing MAC performance of DCF protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Woo-Yong Choi

doi:10.1515/jee-2017-0012

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Enhancing MAC performance of DCF protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Journal of Electrical Engineering

Volume 68 (2017): Issue 1 (January 2017)

By: Woo-Yong Choi

Open Access

|Mar 2017

Abstract

The DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) is the basic MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs and compatible with various IEEE 802.11 PHY extensions. The performance of the DCF degrades exponentially as the number of nodes participating in the DCF transmission procedure increases. To deal with this problem, we propose a simple, however efficient modification of the DCF by which the performance of the DCF is greatly enhanced.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jee-2017-0012 | Journal eISSN: 1339-309X | Journal ISSN: 1335-3632

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Language: English

Page range: 83 - 86

Submitted on: Nov 10, 2016

Published on: Mar 14, 2017

Published by: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 6 issues per year

Keywords:

wireless LAN,

MAC,

DCF,

throughput

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