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Abstract

In recent years, a wide variety of mobile computing devices has emerged, including portables, palmtops, and personal digital assistants. Providing adequate network connectivity for these devices will require a new generation of wireless LAN technology. In this paper we study media access protocols for a single channel wireless LAN being developed at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. We start with the MACA media access protocol first proposed by Karn [9] and later refined by Biba [3] which uses an RTS-CTS-DATA packet exchange and binary exponential back-off. Using packet-level simulations, we examine various performance and design issues in such protocols. Our analysis leads to a new protocol, MACAW, which uses an RTS-CTS-DS-DATA-ACK message exchange and includes a significantly different backoff algorithm.

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Computer scienceComputer networkNetwork packetProtocol (science)ThroughputWirelessInternetworkingTelecommunicationsThe InternetOperating system

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Year: 1994
Type: article
Pages: 212-225
Citations: 1085
Access: Closed

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APA Style

                            
                                    V. Bharghavan, 
                                
                                    Alan Demers, 
                                
                                    Scott Shenker
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1994). 
                            MACAW. 
                            
                            , 212-225.
                            https://doi.org/10.1145/190314.190334

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DOI: 10.1145/190314.190334