An overlay MAC layer for 802.11 networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
SoftMAC: Layer 2.5 Collaborative MAC for Multimedia Support in Multihop Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
FreeMAC: framework for multi-channel mac development on 802.11 hardware
Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Programmable routers for extensible services of tomorrow
A distributed coordination scheme to improve the performance of IEEE 802.11 in multi-hop networks
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Covenant: an architecture for cooperative scheduling in 802.11 wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
JaldiMAC: taking the distance further
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
A new MAC scheme specifically suited for real-time industrial communication based on IEEE 802.11e
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Self and static interference mitigation scheme for coexisting wireless networks
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Load-balancing metrics: Comparison for infrastructure-based wireless networks
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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It is well known that the 802.11 Medium Access Control Protocol faces challenging problems in dense WLAN deployments. The major problem is interference, which leads to collisions or causes wireless nodes to defer from transmission for long time periods. One way to alleviate interference is to employ a time-slotted access scheme when high interference is observed. However, when the number of interfering links is high, it might not be possible to schedule all interfering links with an acceptable number of time slots, especially if both uplink and downlink traffic are considered. In this article, we propose and evaluate a novel idea of combining the RTS/CTS mechanism and time slotting to solve this problem. Results of detailed simulation experiments have shown that such a combined approach has a good potential to be used in future WLANs implementations.