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      A High Efficiency MAC Protocol for WLANs: Providing Fairness in Dense Scenarios

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          Collisions are a main cause of throughput degradation in WLANs. The current contention mechanism used in IEEE 802.11 networks is called Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA). It uses a Binary Exponential Backoff (BEB) technique to randomise each contender attempt of transmitting, effectively reducing the collision probability. Nevertheless, CSMA/CA relies on a random backoff that while effective and fully decentralised, in principle is unable to completely eliminate collisions, therefore degrading the network throughput as more contenders attempt to share the channel. To overcome these situations, Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Enhanced Collision Avoidance (CSMA/ECA) is able to create a collision-free schedule in a fully decentralised manner using a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions. Hysteresis and Fair Share are two extensions of CSMA/ECA to support a large number of contenders in a collision-free schedule. CSMA/ECA offers better throughput than CSMA/CA and short-term throughput fairness. This work describes CSMA/ECA and its extensions. Additionally, it provides the first evaluation results of CSMA/ECA with non-saturated traffic, channel errors, and its performance when coexisting with CSMA/CA nodes. Furthermore, it describes the effects of imperfect clocks over CSMA/ECA and present a mechanism to leverage the impact of channel errors and the addition/withdrawal of nodes over collision-free schedules. Finally, experimental results on throughput and lost frames from a CSMA/ECA implementation using commercial hardware and open-source firmware are presented.

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                2014-12-03
                2015-11-11
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                10.1109/TNET.2016.2587907
                1412.1395
                50612f09-2e2d-45ad-9dc2-479c916ef513

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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                Networking & Internet architecture
                Networking & Internet architecture

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