MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
An engineering approach to computer networking: ATM networks, the Internet, and the telephone network
Achieving MAC layer fairness in wireless packet networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Dynamic tuning of the IEEE 802.11 protocol to achieve a theoretical throughput limit
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Quality of service schemes for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs: an evaluation
Mobile Networks and Applications
ALOHA packet system with and without slots and capture
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
CONTI: constant-time contention resolution for WLAN access
NETWORKING'05 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP-TC6 international conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
Quality-of-service in ad hoc carrier sense multiple access wireless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Proceedings of the 1st Amrita ACM-W Celebration on Women in Computing in India
CoopMACA: a cooperative MAC protocol using packet aggregation
Wireless Networks
International Journal of Communication Systems
A dynamic ID management protocol for CSMA/IC in ad hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
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The contention resolution scheme is a key component in carrier sense based wireless MAC protocols. It has a major impact on MAC’s performance metrics such as throughput, delay, and jitter. The IEEE 802.11 DCF adopts a simple contention resolution scheme, namely Binary Exponential Backoff (BEB) scheme. The BEB achieves a reasonable performance for transmitting best-effort packets in small-size wireless networks. However, as the network size increases, it suffers from inefficiency because of the medium contention, which leads to reduced performance. The main reason is that the BEB mechanism incurs an everincreasing collision rate as the number of contending nodes increases. We devise a novel contention resolution scheme, a k-round elimination contention (k-EC) scheme. The k-EC scheme exhibits high efficiency and robustness during the collision resolution. More importantly, it is insensitive to the number of contending nodes. This feature makes it feasible for use in networks of different sizes. Simulation results show that the k-EC scheme offers a powerful remedy to medium contention resolution. It significantly outperforms the IEEE 802.11 DCF scheme in all the MAC’s performance metrics, and also exhibits better fairness.