Dynamic tuning of the IEEE 802.11 protocol to achieve a theoretical throughput limit
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A capacity analysis for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol
Wireless Networks
CSMA/CA performance under high traffic conditions: throughput and delay analysis
Computer Communications
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Group-Based Medium Access for Next-GenerationWireless LANs
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
A New MAC Scheme for Very High-Speed WLANs
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
IMSA'06 Proceedings of the 24th IASTED international conference on Internet and multimedia systems and applications
Analysis of burst acknowledgement mechanisms for IEEE 802.11e WLANs over fading wireless channels
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMMUNICATIONS
Aggregation with fragment retransmission for very high-speed WLANs
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Efficient multimedia transmission using adaptive packet bursting for wireless LANs
Computer Communications
Overcoming the IEEE 802.11 paradox for realtime multimedia traffic
Computer Communications
Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11 in multi-hop wireless networks
MSN'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks
Validation of the IEEE 802.11 MAC model in the ns3 simulator using the EXTREME testbed
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Fragmentation and AES encryption overhead in very high-speed wireless LANs
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Techniques for improving the accuracy of 802.11 WLAN-based networking experimentation
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on simulators and experimental testbeds design and development for wireless networks
Intra-flow interference study in IEEE 802.11s mesh networks
MACOM'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Multiple access communications
Reservation and grouping stations for the IEEE 802.11 DCF
NETWORKING'05 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP-TC6 international conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
An Enhanced A-MSDU Frame Aggregation Scheme for 802.11n Wireless Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
The Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11e for QoS Support in Wireless LANs
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
BPC - A binary priority countdown protocol
Ad Hoc Networks
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The IEEE 802.11 specifications provide up to 54 Mbps data rates, respectively. The industry is seeking Higher Data Rates (HDR's) over 100Mbps for IEEE 802.11a extension. However, the medium access control (MAC), which they are based upon, is the same. In this paper, we explore the overhead of HDR's to find out whether the MAC is good enough for the increasing data rates and what to expect as the industry seeks higher data rates. We prove that a theoretical throughput upper limit and a theoretical delay lower limit exist for IEEE 802.11 protocols. The existence of such limits indicates that the overhead must be reduced to get good performance for HDR's. Otherwise, the enhanced performance of HDR's is limited and bounded even when the data rate becomes infinitely high. Both reducing overhead and pursuing HDR's are therefore necessary and important. In order to reduce overhead, we propose a burst transmission and acknowledgement (BTA) mechanism, in which, instead of acknowledging each frame, a burst of frames is received first, and then the whole burst is acknowledged one time. Our study shows that with the BTA mechanism, overhead has been greatly reduced and performance has been greatly improved.