A compensation-based cooperative mechanism to improve the performance of IEEE 802.11 WLANs

Hayoung Oh, Sanghyun Ahn

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Abstract

In a saturated IEEE 802.11-based wireless network, stations tend to face back-off delay and retransmissions because of the basic characteristics of DCF based on CSMA/CA. Several relay-based cooperative mechanisms have been proposed to improve the performance of the IEEE 802.11 WLAN. However, they require complicate procedures for the optimal cooperation among stations. In this paper, we propose a compensation-based cooperative mechanism that can improve the throughput of the IEE 802.11 WLAN and give fair chances to stations. The main idea of our proposed mechanism is that when the transmission of a station fails, one of its neighbor nodes with better channel quality transmits the failed frame as well as its own data frame using the MSDU aggregation scheme. After that, when the failed station grabs the channel, it gives its right to transmit to the proxy node as compensation. Simulation results show that the proposed mechanism significantly improves throughput and throughput gain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Science and Its Applications - Ubiquitous Information Technologies
EditorsHwa Young Jeong, Ivan Stojmenovic, James J. Park, Gangman Yi
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages907-912
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9783662454015
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event6th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, CSA 2014 - Guam, United States
Duration: 17 Dec 201419 Dec 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume330
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference6th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, CSA 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityGuam
Period17/12/1419/12/14

Keywords

  • Compensation
  • Cooperative mechanism
  • IEEE 802.11
  • MSDU aggregation
  • Overhear

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