Fairness vs Spatial Reuse in Wireless 802.11 Networks

This paper reviews some of our recent results in [1] and [2] on the fairness of decentralized medium access control protocols based on CSMA/CA, such as IEEE 802.11, in large multi-hop wireless networks. We focus on the trade-off between high spatial reuse and fairness. In particular, we show that th...

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Published in2008 IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications pp. 34 - 37
Main Authors Durvy, M., Dousse, O., Thiran, P.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2008
Subjects
Access protocols
Boundary conditions
Communication channels
Laboratories
Media Access Protocol
Multiaccess communication
Network topology
Seminars
Spread spectrum communication
Wireless application protocol
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Summary:This paper reviews some of our recent results in [1] and [2] on the fairness of decentralized medium access control protocols based on CSMA/CA, such as IEEE 802.11, in large multi-hop wireless networks. We focus on the trade-off between high spatial reuse and fairness. In particular, we show that the widely observed unfairness of the protocol in small network topologies does not always persist in large topologies.
ISBN:1424416817
9781424416813
ISSN:2160-3839
DOI:10.1109/IZS.2008.4497270