The current IEEE 802.11 medium access control standard is being deployed in coffee shops, airports and even across major cities. The terminals accessing these wi-fi access points do not belong to the same entity, as in corporate networks, but are usually individually owned and operated…
Author: BenAmmar, Nassir
Source: University of Maryland
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Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Related Work
2 The Distributed Coordination Function of IEEE 802.11
2.1 Exponential Backooff Mechanism
2.2 Shortfalls of the Random Back off Time
3 Bayesian Games and Protocol Design
3.1 Random Access Nash Equilibrium
3.2 The Revelation Principle
3.3 Truth Telling Second Price Auction
3.4 Vickrey Auction and Time Slot Allocation
4 Incentive Compatible Medium Access Control
4.1 Control Packets
4.2 Time Slot Valuation
5 ICMAC Performance and Design Parameters
5.1 Performance
5.1.1 IEEE 802.11 Markov Chain Model
5.2 Design
5.2.1 Fragment Size
5.2.2 Number of Slots per Round
6 Simulation Results
6.1 ICMAC Design
6.2 Multiple Packet Scheduling
6.3 ICMAC vs IEEE 802.11
6.4 Communication Cost
6.4.1 Same User Types
6.4.2 Different User Types and Qos
7 Conclusion 60
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