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The failure of CSMA in emerging wireless network scenarios

Fitzgerald, Emma LU orcid and Landfeldt, Björn LU (2014) Wireless Days (WD), 2014 IFIP p.1-4
Abstract
The current family of 802.11 protocols are based on the Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) mechanism which is a simple and robust means of sharing a channel. However, two current trends in wireless networks point towards a situation where CSMA fails to perform better than pure random access solutions such as ALOHA. The first trend is the ever increasing raw data rate in each generation of 802.11 which is set to continue with the current 802.11ax standardisation. The second is the move towards smaller frames as end users increasingly use mobile devices instead of desktop computers. We show that as the ratio of propagation delay to packet transmission time increases, the performance of CSMA degrades correspondingly, to the point where... (More)
The current family of 802.11 protocols are based on the Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) mechanism which is a simple and robust means of sharing a channel. However, two current trends in wireless networks point towards a situation where CSMA fails to perform better than pure random access solutions such as ALOHA. The first trend is the ever increasing raw data rate in each generation of 802.11 which is set to continue with the current 802.11ax standardisation. The second is the move towards smaller frames as end users increasingly use mobile devices instead of desktop computers. We show that as the ratio of propagation delay to packet transmission time increases, the performance of CSMA degrades correspondingly, to the point where ALOHA outperforms CSMA. (Less)
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IEEE 802.11 Standards Multiaccess communication Propagation delay Protocols Throughput Wireless LAN Wireless communication
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4 pages
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Wireless Days (WD), 2014 IFIP
conference location
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
conference dates
2014-11-12
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  • scopus:84937807008
DOI
10.1109/WD.2014.7020830
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MESH-WISE - Self-organising MESH Networking with Heterogeneous Wireless Access
ELLIIT LU P01: WP2 Networking solutions
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English
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  author       = {{Fitzgerald, Emma and Landfeldt, Björn}},
  booktitle    = {{[Host publication title missing]}},
  keywords     = {{IEEE 802.11 Standards Multiaccess communication Propagation delay Protocols Throughput Wireless LAN Wireless communication}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1--4}},
  title        = {{The failure of CSMA in emerging wireless network scenarios}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WD.2014.7020830}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/WD.2014.7020830}},
  year         = {{2014}},
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