Analyzing and Tuning the Distributed Coordination Function in the IEEE 802.11 DFWMAC Draft Standard
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The upcoming standard for wireless LANs DFWMAC1 developed by the IEEE2 802.11 working group consists of two parts the distributed coordination function DCF that is based on a contention scheme and the point coordination function PCF based on a contention free scheme. The DCF is CSMA/CA like access protocol with several extensions. In this paper, following a short presentation of the elements in DFWMAC in general and DCF in particular we will present the results of our simulative analysis of the DCF part in DFWMAC focussing on two key mechanisms in it the RTS/CTS message exchange and the backoff algorithm.
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