The failure of CSMA in emerging wireless network scenarios
Författare
Summary, in English
The current family of 802.11 protocols are based on the Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) mechanism which is a simple and robust means of sharing a channel. However, two current trends in wireless networks point towards a situation where CSMA fails to perform better than pure random access solutions such as ALOHA. The first trend is the ever increasing raw data rate in each generation of 802.11 which is set to continue with the current 802.11ax standardisation. The second is the move towards smaller frames as end users increasingly use mobile devices instead of desktop computers. We show that as the ratio of propagation delay to packet transmission time increases, the performance of CSMA degrades correspondingly, to the point where ALOHA outperforms CSMA.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1-4
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
[Host publication title missing]
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Nyckelord
- IEEE 802.11 Standards Multiaccess communication Propagation delay Protocols Throughput Wireless LAN Wireless communication
Conference name
Wireless Days (WD), 2014 IFIP
Conference date
2014-11-12
Conference place
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Status
Published
Projekt
- MESH-WISE - Self-organising MESH Networking with Heterogeneous Wireless Access
- ELLIIT LU P01: WP2 Networking solutions
Forskningsgrupp
- Networking