Performance Enhancement of IEEE 802.11b WLANs Using Cooperative MAC Protocol

Authors:
Jin-Seong Kim;Tae-Jin Lee
Affiliations:
School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea 440-746;School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea 440-746
Venue:
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part II
Year:
2009

Citing 2
Cited 1

802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide

802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
CoopMAC: A Cooperative MAC for Wireless LANs

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Relay-volunteered multi-rate cooperative MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Wireless Networks

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) guarantees fair transmission opportunity to stations. Channel occupation of low rate stations in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) causes the performance anomaly resulting in the degradation of overall network throughput. Using cooperative communications between a high rate station and a low rate station, performance anomaly can be mitigated in IEEE 802.11 WLAN. In this paper, we propose a new cooperative Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol to remedy the performance anomaly and to improve transmission opportunities for low rate stations. We show that the proposed cooperative MAC protocol can enhance overall performance (e.g., throughput and MAC delay).