IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) guarantees fair transmission opportunity to stations. Channel occupation of low rate stations in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area...
—Most of the deployed IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) use infrastructure Basic Service Set (BSS) in which an Access Point (AP) serves as a gateway between wired ...
Wide-spread deployment of infrastructure WLANs has made Wi-Fi an integral part of today’s Internet access technology. Despite its crucial role in affecting end-to-end performan...
Carrier Sense Multi-Access (CSMA) is a typical method to share the common channel in a Wireless LAN (WLAN). It works fairly well in times of light traffic. However as the number of...
Abstract--Two well-known problems that can cause performance degradations in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks are the exposednode (EN) and hidden-node (HN) problems. Although there ha...