Tournament MAC with Constant Size Congestion Window for WLAN

Jérôme Galtier (1)

1 MASCOTTE - Algorithms, simulation, combinatorics and optimization for telecommunications

In the context of radio distributed networks, we present a generalized approach for the Medium Access Control (MAC) with fixed congestion window. Our protocol is quite simple to analyze and can be used in a lot of different situations. We give mathematical evidence showing that our performance is tight, in the sense that no protocol with fixed congestion window can do better. We also place ourselves in the WiFi/WiMAX framework, and show experimental results enlightening collision reduction of 14% to 21% compared to the best known other methods. We show channel capacity improvement, and fairness considerations.

Mots clés: WLAN; WiFi; WiMAX; IEEE 802.11; spectral efficiency; radio channel

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Jérôme Galtier. Tournament MAC with Constant Size Congestion Window for WLAN. [Research Report] RR-6396, INRIA. 2007, pp.23. ⟨inria-00195965v2⟩