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An Overview of WLAN Performance, Some Important Case-Scenarios and Their Associated Models

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The study of the 802.11 standard has been very intense for more than a decade now. Several works have striven at understanding its performance, even in the simplest topology of a wireless local area network (WLAN) with a single access point. The present survey is an effort to classify and present the enormous literature on the subject into several important case-scenarios, and summarizes the current understanding of WLAN performance. The resulting performance and associated models are discussed (and sometimes extended) and simulation results are used to illustrate them. We also highlight interesting open research problems that we believe the community should address.

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  1. More precisely, for all practical purposes DIFS is replaced by the Arbitration Interframe Space (AIFS), the value of which depends on the AC as follows: \(\text {AIFS[AC]}=\text {AIFSN[AC]}\times \text {aSlotTime}+\text {aSIFSTime}\), where AIFSN[AC] is an integer. Similarly, EIFS is now “replaced” by \(\text {EIFS}-\text {DIFS}+\text {AIFS[AC]}\).

  2. Please note that such situation is not considered in Bianchi’s original model. The interested reader is referred to [52] for details on how to include it in the model.

  3. More in particular, we have used the ThreeLogDistancePropagationLossModel model of ns-3, with parameters Distance0, Distance1, ReferenceLoss, Exponent0 and Exponent1 equal to 1, \(d\), 2, 4.9 and \(\alpha \) respectively (where \(d\) varied linearly from 50 to 100 and \(\alpha \) from 24 to 13).

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This work was partially funded by the Universidad de la República’s CSIC i+d project “Algoritmos de Control de Acceso al Medio en Redes Inalámbricas”.

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Larroca, F., Rodríguez, F. An Overview of WLAN Performance, Some Important Case-Scenarios and Their Associated Models. Wireless Pers Commun 79, 131–184 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1846-4

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