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Energy Efficient Backoff-Free Fragment Retransmission Fragmentation Scheme for IEEE 802.11 WLAN

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This paper investigates the energy efficiency of MAC layer fragmentation. Despite the usefulness of fragmentation in improving transmission reliability in poor quality wireless channels, it comes with overhead costs that lead to its energy inefficiency. We propose backoff-free fragment retransmission (BFFR). BFFR is a fragmentation scheme that addresses some of classical fragmentation overheads. It aims at improving classical fragmentation energy efficiency without adversely affecting its throughput. We implement BFFR in NS3 and performance evaluation showed that BFFR outperforms classical fragmentation scheme in both throughput and energy efficiency.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

    Prosper Mafole, Yuki Manabe, Teruaki Kitasuka & Masayoshi Aritsugi

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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  3. Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Hwa-Young Jeong

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Mafole, P., Manabe, Y., Kitasuka, T., Aritsugi, M. (2014). Energy Efficient Backoff-Free Fragment Retransmission Fragmentation Scheme for IEEE 802.11 WLAN. In: Park, J., Zomaya, A., Jeong, HY., Obaidat, M. (eds) Frontier and Innovation in Future Computing and Communications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8798-7_21

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