MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Dynamic tuning of the IEEE 802.11 protocol to achieve a theoretical throughput limit
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
The IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion
The IEEE 802.11 Handbook: A Designer's Companion
A real-time medium access control protocol for ad hoc wireless local area networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Improving protocol capacity with model-based frame scheduling in IEEE 802.11-operated WLANs
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Analysis of IEEE 802.11e for QoS support in wireless LANs
IEEE 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
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
Inter-AP coordination for fair throughput in infrastructure-based IEEE 802.11 mesh networks
Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Mobility '06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile technology, applications & systems
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Aggregation with fragment retransmission for very high-speed WLANs
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Carrier sense multiple access with enhanced collision avoidance: a performance analysis
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly
CSMAC: a new centralized scheduling-based MAC protocol for wireless LAN
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Throughput balancing problem between uplink and downlink in multi-user MIMO-based WLAN systems
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Avoiding collision with hidden nodes in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks
IEEE Communications Letters
Contention-polling duality coordination function for IEEE 802.11 WLAN family
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Max-min fairness based radio resource management in fourth generation heterogeneous networks
ISCIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Communications and information technologies
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
A reservation based backoff method for video streaming in 802.11 home networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Dynamic parameter adjustment in CSMA/ECA
MACOM'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Multiple access communications
An Adaptive Learning Scheme for Medium Access with Channel Reservation in Wireless Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Novel mechanisms for quality of service improvements in wireless ad hoc networks
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on SYSTEMS
A random backoff algorithm for wireless sensor networks
NEW2AN'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Semi-random backoff: towards resource reservation for channel access in wireless LANs
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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The IEEE 802.11 standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) employs a Medium Access Control (MAC), called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), which is based on Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA). The collision avoidance mechanism utilizes the random backoff prior to each frame transmission attempt. The random nature of the backoff reduces the collision probability, but cannot completely eliminate collisions. It is known that the throughput performance of the 802.11 WLAN is significantly compromised as the number of stations increases. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed reservation-based MAC protocol, called Early Backoff Announcement (EBA), which is backward compatible with the legacy DCF. Under EBA, a station announces its future backoff information in terms of the number of backoff slots via the MAC header of its frame being transmitted. All the stations receiving the information avoid collisions by excluding the same backoff duration when selecting their future backoff value. Through extensive simulations, EBA is found to achieve a significant increase in the throughput performance as well as a higher degree of fairness compared to the 802.11 DCF.