摘要
Backoffmechanismisakeycomponentofcontention-basedmediumaccesscontrol(MAC)layerprotocol.IthasbeenshownthatthebackoffmechanismofIEEE802.11standardmaybeveryinefficientespeciallywhenthenetworkiscongested.Numbersofmethodshavebeenproposedtotunethecontentionwindow(CW)withtheaimtoachievetheoptimalthroughputinIEEE802.11WLANs.However,themechanismsdonotspecificallyaddresspropersettingsforthevariablepacketlengthinfluenceandCWdivergingproblem.Thispaperproposesanovelfour-wayhandshakingfull-feedbackbackoffalgorithmnamedadoptivecontentionwindowbackoff(ACWB)toovercomethesedrawbacks.Theperformanceoftheproposedalgorithmisinvestigatedthroughanalysisandsimulation.SimulationresultsdemonstratethattheACWBalgorithmprovidesaremarkableperformanceimprovementintermsofshort-termfairness,packetdelayanddelayjitter,whilemaintaininganoptimalthroughputclosetothetheoreticalthroughputlimitoftheIEEE802.11distributedcoordinationfunction(DCF)accessscheme.
出版日期
2016年01月11日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
