Author
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- Abdul Rehman
(Department of Electrical Engineering, Bahria University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan)
- Faisal Bashir Hussain
(Department of Computer Science, Bahria University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan)
- Jawad Tanveer
(School of Optical Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea)
- Amir Haider
(School of Intelligent Mechatronics Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea)
Abstract
Wireless local area networks (WLANs), known as Wi-Fi, are widely deployed to meet the enhanced needs of data-centric internet applications, such as wireless docking, unified communications, cloud computing, interactive multimedia gaming, progressive streaming, support of wearable devices, up-link broadcasts and cellular offloading. Wi-Fi networks typically adopt the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF)-based Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA), which uses the Binary Exponential Back-off (BEB) algorithm at the MAC layer mechanism to access channel resources. Currently deployed Wi-Fi networks face huge challenges towards efficient channel access for denser environments due to the blind exponential increase/decrease of a contention window ( C W ) procedure that is inefficient for a higher number of contending stations. Several modifications and amendments have been proposed to improve the performance of the MAC layer channel access based on a fixed or variable C W size. However, a more realistic network density-based channel resource allocation solution is still missing. An efficient channel resource allocation is one of the most critical challenges for future highly dense WLANs, such as High-Efficiency WLAN (HEW). In this paper, we propose a Channel Collision-based Window Scaled Back-off (CWSB) mechanism for channel resource allocation in HEW. In our proposed CWSB, all contending stations select an optimized C W size for each back-off stage for collided or successfully transmitted data frames. We affirm the performance of the proposed CWSB mechanism with the help of an Iterative Discrete Time Markov Chain (I-DTMC) model. This paper evaluates the performance of our proposed CWSB mechanism in HEW Wi-Fi networks using an NS3 simulator in terms of the normalized throughput and channel access delay compared to the state-of-the-art BEB and a recently proposed mechanism.
Suggested Citation
Abdul Rehman & Faisal Bashir Hussain & Jawad Tanveer & Amir Haider, 2022.
"Collision-Based Window-Scaled Back-Off Mechanism for Dense Channel Resource Allocation in Future Wi-Fi,"
Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-22, June.
Handle:
RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:10:y:2022:i:12:p:2053-:d:838343
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