Distributed MAC Strategy for Exploiting Multi-user Diversity in Multi-rate IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs
Da Rui Chen, Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang

TL;DR
This paper introduces R-DCF, a distributed MAC protocol that enhances multi-user diversity and throughput in multi-rate IEEE 802.11 WLANs by prioritizing high-rate users and reducing collisions.
Contribution
The paper proposes R-DCF, a novel distributed MAC strategy that exploits multi-user diversity and channel conditions to improve throughput in multi-rate WLANs.
Findings
R-DCF significantly increases throughput compared to legacy MAC.
Analytical model accurately predicts R-DCF performance.
Offline adaptive backoff achieves near-optimal throughput.
Abstract
Fast rate adaptation has been established as an effective way to improve the PHY-layer raw date rate of wireless networks. However, within the current IEEE 802.11 legacy, MAC-layer throughput is dominated by users with the lowest data rates, resulting in underutilization of bandwidth. In this paper, we propose and analyze a novel distributed MAC strategy, referred to as Rate-aware DCF (R-DCF), to leverage the potential of rate adaptation in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. The key feature of R-DCF is that by introducing different mini slots according to the instantaneous channel conditions, only contending stations with the highest data rate can access the channel. In this way, the R-DCF protocol not only exploits multi-user diversity in a fully distributed manner but also reduces the loss of throughput due to collisions. Through analysis, we develop an analytical model to derive the throughput of…
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Taxonomy
TopicsWireless Networks and Protocols · Cooperative Communication and Network Coding · Advanced Wireless Network Optimization
