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S. G. Xu and T. Saadawi, “Does the IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol Work Well in Multi-hop Wireless ad Hoc Networks?” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 6, 2001, pp. 130-137. doi:10.1109/35.925681

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• TITLE: Collision Detection and the Design of Fair and Stable MAC Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

  AUTHORS: Yongkang Xiao, Rong Xiao, Bo Sun

  KEYWORDS: Ad hoc Networks; IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol; TCP; Fair; Stable; Collision Detection Mechanism

  JOURNAL NAME: Communications and Network, Vol.5 No.3C, November 12, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Fairness and stability guarantee among TCP flows is very stubborn in wireless ad hoc networks. There is not a MAC protocol that can fulfill this acquirement until now. In this paper, we firstly reveal the in-depth causes of the severe TCP unfairness and instability problems in IEEE 802.11-based multihop networks. Then we utilize the collision detection mechanism of the IEEE 802.11 protocol which is often ignored by most of the people to design a novel collision detection mechanism-based MAC (CDMB-MAC) scheme to solve the short-term and long-term fairness and stability issues while providing a good aggregate throughput in many topologies.