A MAC protocol for full exploitation of directional antennas in ad-hoc wireless networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Hybrid Dynamic Channel Assignment in Clustered Wireless Multihop CDMA/TDMA Ad Hoc Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Throughput analysis and rate control for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN with hidden terminals
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
An iterative zigzag decoding for combating collisions in wireless networks
IEEE Communications Letters
Throughput analysis and bandwidth allocation for IEEE 802.11 WLAN with hidden terminals
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Wireless local area networks (WLAN) are expected to be a major growth factor for communication networks in the up-coming years. They are expected to provide a transparent connection for mobile hosts to communicate with other mobile hosts, and wired hosts on the wired LAN and broadband networks. Recently there have been two WLAN projects undergo standardization process: the IEEE 802.11 and the ETSI HIPERLAN. Most of the existing study of the two MAC protocols focused on simulation results, and none of them has formally analyzed the hidden-terminal effect, which is both crucial and unavoidable in wireless/mobile environment. In the first part of this paper, we formally analyze the hidden-terminal effect on HIPERLAN. Through mathematical analysis, we formulate network throughput under hidden-terminal influence in terms of the original (clear-channel) throughput, hidden-terminal probability, and other protocol parameters. We show that when hidden probability is greater than zero, the achievable throughput is reduced by more than the percentage of hidden probability. In the second part of the paper, we evaluate and compare the two WLAN MAC protocols by simulation on the effect of hidden terminals on (1) network throughput, (2) real-time voice delay, and (3) number of voice and data stations supported while guaranteeing delay for voice. We also evaluate how well the two MAC protocols support real-time traffic while considering the effects of frame size and other network parameters, and measure (1) the distribution of voice delay and (2) number of voice and data stations supported while guaranteeing their quality of service. We found that, comparing with IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN provides real-time packet voice traffic with shorter delay, and at the same time provides the non-real-time packet data with higher bandwidth.