IEICE Trans - Saturation Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 WLAN under the Assumption of No Consecutive Transmissions

Saturation Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 WLAN under the Assumption of No Consecutive Transmissions

Seong Joon KIM
Ho Young HWANG
Jae Kyun KWON
Dan Keun SUNG

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E90-B No.3 pp.700-703
Publication Date: 2007/03/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.3.700
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword:
access protocols, carrier sense multiple access, CSMA/CA, IEEE 802.11, wireless LAN,

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Summary:
To analyze the saturation performance of IEEE 802.11 DCF, several discrete-time Markov chain models for a station and sets of channel equations have been introduced. We take into account a frame retry limit, freezing of backoff counter, and the dependence of backoff procedure on the previous channel status all together. Our method is simple even though it is accurate under the assumption of no consecutive transmissions over the shared channel.