Malone, David and Dangerfield, Ian and Leith, Douglas J. (2007) Verification of Common 802.11 MAC Model Assumptions. In: Proceedings of the Passive and active network measurement 8th international conference, PAM 2007, April 5-6, 2007, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium.

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Abstract

There has been considerable success in analytic modeling of the 802.11 MAC layer. These models are based on a number of fundamental assumptions. In this paper we attempt to verify these assumptions by taking careful measurements using an 802.11e testbed with commodity hardware. We show that the assumptions do not always hold but our measurements offer insight as to why the models may still produce good predictions. To our knowledge, this is the first in-detail attempt to compare 802.11 models and their assumptions with experimental measurements from an 802.11 testbed. The measurements collect also allow us to test if the basic MAC operation adhere to the 802.11 standards.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	802.11; 802.11 CSMA/CA contention mechanism; Conditional packet collision probabilities; Experimental testbed; MAC model; MAC Layer; Model assumptions.
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	1468
Depositing User:	Dr. David Malone
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2009 10:56
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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