An engineering approach to computer networking: ATM networks, the Internet, and the telephone network
A capacity analysis for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol
Wireless Networks
A Wireless MAC Protocol Using Implicit Pipelining
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
SYN-MAC: a distributed medium access control protocol for synchronized wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Modeling the 802.11 distributed coordination function in nonsaturated heterogeneous conditions
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A Wireless MAC Protocol with Collision Detection
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A k-Round Elimination Contention Scheme for WLANs
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
THE ALOHA SYSTEM: another alternative for computer communications
AFIPS '70 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 17-19, 1970, fall joint computer conference
Analyzing multi-channel medium access control schemes with ALOHA reservation
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Protocol design and throughput analysis of frequency-agile multi-channel medium access control
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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
Intelligent medium access for mobile ad hoc networks with busy tones and power control
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE 802.11 protocol: design and performance evaluation of an adaptive backoff mechanism
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Design of an efficient wireless medium access control (MAC) protocol is a challenging task due to the time-varying characteristics of wireless communication channel and different delay requirements in diverse applications. To support variable number of active stations and varying network load conditions, random access MAC protocols are employed. Existing wireless local area network (WLAN) protocol (IEEE 802.11) is found to be inefficient at high data rates because of the overhead associated with the contention resolution mechanism employed. The new amendments of IEEE 802.11 that support multimedia traffic (IEEE 802.11e) are at the expense of reduced data traffic network efficiency. In this paper, we propose a random access MAC protocol called busy tone contention protocol (BTCP) that uses out-of-band signals for contention resolution in WLANs. A few variants of this protocol are also proposed to meet the challenges in WLAN environments and application requirements. The proposed BTCP isolate multimedia traffics from background data transmissions and gives high throughput irrespective of the number of contending stations in the network. As a result, in BTCP, admission control of multimedia flows becomes simple and well defined. Studies of the protocol, both analytically and through simulations under various network conditions, have shown to give better performance in comparison with the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.