Distributed Contention Window Control for Selfish Users in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs

  • Authors:
  • Youngmi Jin;G. Kesidis

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Toronto, Toronto;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we study non-cooperative user behavior in random-access wireless networks in which users have freedom to choose their back-off contention window size according to network's congestion status. We formulate a non- cooperative game and show the existence and uniqueness of its equilibrium point. We also propose an iterative method leading to the equilibrium point of the game. A discussion of alternative game formulations in the same problem context is also given.