Achieving performance enhancement in IEEE 802.11 WLANs by using the DIDD backoff mechanism

Wireless local area networks (WLANs) based on the IEEE 802.11 standards have been widely implemented mainly because of their easy deployment and low cost. The IEEE 802.11 collision avoidance procedures utilize the binary exponential backoff (BEB) scheme that reduces the collision probability by doubling the contention window after a packet collision. In this paper, we propose an easy‐to‐implement and effective contention window‐resetting scheme, called double increment double decrement (DIDD), in order to enhance the performance of IEEE 802.11 WLANs. DIDD is simple, fully compatible with IEEE 802.11 and does not require any estimation of the number of contending wireless stations. We develop an alternative mathematical analysis for the proposed DIDD scheme that is based on elementary conditional probability arguments rather than bi‐dimensional Markov chains that have been extensively utilized in the literature. We carry out a detailed performance study and we identify the improvement of DIDD comparing to the legacy BEB for both basic access and request‐to‐send/clear‐to‐send (RTS/CTS) medium access mechanisms. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

IEEE 802. 11无线局域网中基于最优窗口的退避算法

首先通过把资源分配看成效用最大化的优化模型,说明在IEEE 802. 11无线局域网中各个节点争用信道的退避窗口应当一样,然后通过最小化节点间的冲突概率,得出节点个数与最优退避窗口之间的关系,由此提出一种基于最优共享退避窗口的重传算法。由于各个节点的退避窗口一样,算法有效地解决了I3EI3(I3inary Exponential Back-off)算法的不公平性问题;并且退避窗口根据网络的状况置,吞吐量也得到了较大的提高。仿真试验验证了算法的有效性。     

Enhanced uplink multi‐users scheduling for future 802.11ax networks: wait‐to‐pick‐as‐available enhanced

One of the key enablers of the upcoming IEEE 802.11ax standard is the inclusion of uplink multi‐users (UL MU) transmission model, which is performed using multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) and beamforming techniques. So far, UL MU‐MIMO has not been standardized in any of IEEE 802.11 amendments, because of technical issues facing its definition. One of these significant issues is the scheduling of UL MU‐MIMO transmissions, which refers to selection rules and resource allocation procedures performed before simultaneous data transmissions. Indeed, simultaneous transmitters and receiver should exchange some information to correctly transmit the parallel data frames. However, this information exchange adds overheads, leading to reduce network performance. In this regard, we have proposed, in a previous work, a novel 802.11ax medium access control protocol aiming at reducing elapsed time in managing the establishment of an UL ‐MU communication called Wait‐to‐Pick‐As‐Available (W2PAA). Our contribution in this paper is twofold. First, we introduce an analytical model based on semi‐Markov Chains to evaluate the performance of W2PAA; taking into a detailed behavior of the backoff counter (i.e. freezing period). Second, we propose an enhanced version of W2PAA aiming at improving both system and user‐oriented performances. Aiming at validating the analytical model and comparing the performance of both versions of W2PAA, we used computer simulation. Obtained results, validate the analytical model in one hand, and clearly indicated the gain of both W2PAA versions by report to the basic UL‐Single User on the other hand. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.