IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Fair medium access in 802.11 based wireless ad-hoc networks
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Does the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol work well in multihop wireless ad hoc networks?
IEEE Communications Magazine
PE-WASUN '04 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
Fairness of medium access control protocols for multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
CSMA/CCA: a modified CSMA/CA protocol mitigating the fairness problem for IEEE 802.11 DCF
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Allocating dynamic time-spectrum blocks in cognitive radio networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Performance evaluation of a new backoff method for IEEE 802.11
Computer Communications
Power Efficient Relaying MAC Protocol for Rate Adaptive Wireless LANs
ICESS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded Software and Systems
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
SBA: A Simple Backoff Algorithm for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
NETWORKING '09 Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference
ECS: An enhanced carrier sensing mechanism for wireless ad hoc networks
Computer Communications
Fairness of medium access control protocols for multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Eliminating the performance anomaly of 802.11b
ICN'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Networking - Volume Part II
A novel demand-aware fairness metric for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Collaborative approach to mitigating ARP poisoning-based Man-in-the-Middle attacks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Due to hidden terminals and a dynamic topology, contention among stations in an ad-hoc network is not homogeneous. Some stations are at a disadvantage in opportunity of access to the shared channel and can suffer severe throughput degradation when the traffic load is high. This is the so-called "fairness problem" encountered mainly in existing MAC protocols such as IEEE 802.11 Distributed Foundation Wireless Medium Access Control (DFWMAC) that is used as a basis for most performance evaluation of routing protocols in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET). The binary exponential backoff (BEB) used in DFWMAC protocol to resolve contention is known to always favor the last station that succeeds its transmission, which exacerbates the fairness problem in heavy traffic. This paper reviews a measurement-based backoff algorithm for the DFWMAC protocol that achieves statistical fair access to the shared medium, and then models analytically the resultant system as a feedback control system. The analytical model confirms the fairness property of the algorithm, as well as its convergence and show the impact of different parameters of the algorithm on the performance of the system.