Poster: Overheard ACK with token passing: An optimization to 802.11 MAC protocol

Shegufta Bakht Ahsan, Nitin Vaidya

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Abstract

Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) is defined in IEEE 802.11 standard, which is widely used in practice. Despite of its wide use, it has several limitations. Because of the idle and collision times, it suffers from poor channel utilization. Besides, the control packets, particularly, Acknowledgement (ACK), consume non-trivial amount of bandwidth. Though the number of control bits in an ACK frame is small, the added overheads like the preamble, packet header etc. make the situation worse. In this paper, we propose a scheme called Overheard ACK where the explicit ACK frame has been eliminated by using the leverage of packet overhearing. Also, by incorporating explicit and implicit token-passing, this protocol attempts to schedule transmissions without having to use random access, dramatically reducing the idle time and collision time. Simulation results using NS2 con- firm that this protocol significantly outperforms the conven- tional 802.11 DCF.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMobiCom 2014 - Proceedings of the 20th Annual
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages345-346
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450327831
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 7 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event20th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2014 - Maui, United States
Duration: Sep 7 2014Sep 11 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Other

Other20th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMaui
Period9/7/149/11/14

Keywords

  • Packet overhearing
  • Token passing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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