On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Performance study of access control in wireless LANs—IEEE 802.11 DFWMAC and ETSI RES 10 Hiperlan
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on channel access in wireless networks
Wireless data: systems, standards, service
Wireless Networks
Metropolitan Area Networks
Explaining World Wide Web Traffic Self-Similarity
Explaining World Wide Web Traffic Self-Similarity
A Reliable Multicast Protocol for Distributed Mobile Systems: Design and Evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Fault-Tolerant Support for Reliable Multicast in Mobile Wireless Systems
NETWORKING '02 Proceedings of the Second International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; and Mobile and Wireless Communications
Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications
Runtime Optimization of IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs Performance
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function: enhancement and analysis
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Resource reservation and admission control in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
QShine '06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Quality of service in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
QoS based performance analysis of VoWLAN for emergency calls using QualNet
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief
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IEEE 802.11 is a Media Access Control (MAC) protocol which has been standardized by IEEE for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol offers two types of services to its users: synchronous and asynchronous. This paper presents an in‐depth analysis, by simulation, of the asynchronous part alone. The analysis is performed by considering station data traffic patterns (hereafter advanced data traffic) which have a very similar shape to traffic generated by WWW applications. We carried out the simulation by taking into consideration two classes of scenarios: balanced and unbalanced. In the former class each station has the same offered load while in the latter class a specific station is more loaded than the others. Our conclusion is that the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol performs satisfactorily for both classes of scenarios, although performance measures with advanced traffic are worse than the corresponding performance measures with Poissonian traffic. Furthermore, we broadened our analysis to include higher medium capacities than those planned (i.e., 1 and 2 Mbit/sec) up to 10 Mbit/sec. This part of the analysis shows that the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol is not adequate to work at speeds planned for the forthcoming ATM Wireless LAN.