Abstract
Wireless technologies and applications received great attention in recent years. The medium access control (MAC) protocol is the main element that determines the efficiency in sharing the limited communication bandwidth of the wireless channel in wireless local area networks (WLANs). The request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTSICTS) mechanism is an optional handshaking procedure used by the IEEE 802.11 wireless network to reduce the possibility of collision. The RTS-Threshold (RT) value which determines when the RTS/CTS handshaking mechanism should be used is an important parameter to investigate; since different RT values will produce different performance characteristics in data transmission. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the RT parameter on the IEEE 802.11 wireless network, and gives a guideline to dynamically adjust the RT value. Simulation results of this paper show that the RTSICTS mechanism should be always turned on (RT = 0) to achieve an excellent performance while saving complex work designing a dynamic RT mechanism which will not have notable effect.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2002 |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 267-272 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 0769517609 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2002 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2002 - Taiwan, China Duration: 17 12 2002 → 20 12 2002 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS |
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Volume | 2002-January |
ISSN (Print) | 1521-9097 |
Conference
Conference | 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2002 |
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Country/Territory | China |
City | Taiwan |
Period | 17/12/02 → 20/12/02 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2002 IEEE.
Keywords
- Access protocols
- Application software
- Bandwidth
- Computer science
- Data communication
- Media Access Protocol
- Throughput
- Wireless LAN
- Wireless application protocol
- Wireless networks