Full-feedback contention window adaption for IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Backoff mechanism is a key component of contention-based medium access control（MAC） layer protocol.It has been shown that the backoff mechanism of IEEE 802.11 standard may be very inefficient especially when the network is congested.Numbers of methods have been proposed to tune the contention window（CW） with the aim to achieve the optimal throughput in IEEE 802.11 WLANs.However,the mechanisms do not specifically address proper settings for the variable packet length influence and CW diverging problem.This paper proposes a novel four-way handshaking full-feedback backoff algorithm named adoptive contention window backoff（ACWB） to overcome these drawbacks.The performance of the proposed algorithm is investigated through analysis and simulation.Simulation results demonstrate that the ACWB algorithm provides a remarkable performance improvement in terms of short-term fairness,packet delay and delay jitter,while maintaining an optimal throughput close to the theoretical throughput limit of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function（DCF） access scheme.

Improving throughput through dynamically tuning contention window size in dense wireless network

With the boom of wireless devices, the number of wireless users under wireless local area networks （WLANs） has increased dramatically. However, the standard baekoff mechanism in IEEE 802.11 adopts fixed initial contention window （CW） size without considering changes of network load, which leads to a high collision probability and low channel utilization in bursty arrivals. In this paper, a novel CW dynamic adjustment scheme is proposed to achieve high throughput performance in dense user environment. In the proposed scheme, the initial CW size is dynamically adjusted to optimum according to the measured packet collision probability. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can significantly improve the throughput performance.

A NOVEL PFMAC PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK BASED ON PREDICTION AND FEEDBACK METHOD

In view of the problem that existing Media Access Control(MAC) protocols can not pro-vide real-time monitor on network conditions,this paper puts forward a new MAC protocol- Predict and Feedback MAC(PFMAC) which can predict the channel's congestion level reasonably.The dominant idea of the new scheme is to record the channel's busy or idle situation in the backoff stage by sending Sensor Nodes(SNs),and according to the congestion level every SN can change the contention window adaptively when send packets successfully to minimize collisions,saving energy and channel resources.The result of simulation shows that compared with other MAC protocols,the PFMAC protocol can improve network throughput and reduce energy consumption in high speed network en-vironment.

Priority access for QoS support in distributed wireless networks

Guaranteed quality of service(QoS) support has been an open issue of distributed wireless networks for years. The IEEE802.11 e provides a valuable method for this purpose. However, it could only provide service differentiation, rather than service guarantee, for multi-priority traffic. Many studies have tried to improve its QoS ability, but still leave some problems. This paper investigates these problems and proposes a scheme called the priority access based on busy tone(PABT) to improve the Qo S performance. To guarantee the priority channel access, this scheme uses an in-band busy tone to limit the transmission of lower-priority traffic when higher-priority traffic has packets to send. Based on that, it also optimizes the contention window tuning according to the flows number of each traffic type individually, in order to improve the throughput as well as the traffic capacity. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme significantly improves the real-time traffic capacity, throughput, delay, fairness and packet loss rate.