Design and performance analysis of MAC protocol for wireless LAN.

Liu Haiping.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-82).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Acknowledgments --- p.iAbstract --- p.iiTable of Contents --- p.viList of Figures --- p.viiList of Tables --- p.ixChapter Chapter I --- Introduction to Wireless LAN --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Wireless LAN Netwrok Architecture --- p.2Chapter 1.2 --- IEEE 802.11 protocol family --- p.4Chapter 1.3 --- The Major factors influencing the System Performance --- p.7Chapter 1.4 --- Research Objectives --- p.13Chapter 1.5 --- Overview --- p.13Chapter Chapter II --- The Major Deficiency of DCF and Motivation --- p.14Chapter 2.1 --- DCF --- p.15Chapter 2.2 --- The Major Deficiencies in the DCF --- p.20Chapter 2.3 --- Improvement directions --- p.24Chapter Chapter III --- Proposed MAC Protocol --- p.27Chapter 3.1 --- The Design Idea --- p.28Chapter 3.2 --- The Number of Active Nodes --- p.30Chapter 3.3 --- Optimizaition Method for CW --- p.32Chapter 3.4 --- CW and Counter value Updating --- p.35Chapter 3.5 --- Procedure Flow and Simulation Results --- p.37Chapter Chapter IV --- Advanced Proposed Protocol with QoS issues --- p.44Chapter 4.1 --- "QoS requirement, EDCF solution and others' work" --- p.45Chapter 4.2 --- Frame structure changes in the Advanced Proposed MAC Protocol --- p.47Chapter 4.3 --- Recursivley Balance Optimization Method for CW --- p.48Chapter 4.4 --- Decision Algorithm --- p.54Chapter 4.5 --- Model Validation and Simulation Results --- p.66Chapter Chapter V --- Further Discussion about CW design --- p.70Chapter 5.1 --- Influence of the ranges of CW --- p.71Chapter 5.2 --- Proposal for adjusting CW --- p.73Chapter Chapter VI --- Conclusion --- p.75Bibliography --- p.7