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Prototyping Distributed Collision-Free MAC Protocols for WLANs in Real Hardware

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Multiple Access Communcations (MACOM 2013)

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Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Enhanced Collision Avoidance (CSMA/ECA) is a totally distributed, collision-free MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLANs. It is capable of achieving greater throughput than the MAC protocol used in the current standard, called Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA), by means of picking a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions. This work is the first implementation of the main concept behind CSMA/ECA on real hardware. Experimental results confirm the advantages of CSMA/ECA over CSMA/CA in terms of throughput and set the ground for its complete prototyping on real hardware using OpenFWWF.

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  1. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Carrer de Tànger 122 – 150, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Luis Sanabria-Russo, Jaume Barcelo & Boris Bellalta

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  1. Halmstad University, 301 18, Halmstad, Sweden

    Magnus Jonsson

  2. Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

    Alexey Vinel

  3. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Carrer de Tànger 122 - 150, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Boris Bellalta

  4. University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle”, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

    Ninoslav Marina

  5. University of Bern, Switzerland

    Desislava Dimitrova

  6. Department of Telecommunication and Information Processing, Ghent University, St-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Dieter Fiems

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Sanabria-Russo, L., Barcelo, J., Bellalta, B. (2013). Prototyping Distributed Collision-Free MAC Protocols for WLANs in Real Hardware. In: Jonsson, M., Vinel, A., Bellalta, B., Marina, N., Dimitrova, D., Fiems, D. (eds) Multiple Access Communcations. MACOM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8310. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03871-1_8

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