@inproceedings{22d740c3408844f6bd1c742d10c4ddea,
title = "Apples and oranges: Comparing schedule- and contention-based medium access control",
abstract = "Comparison of schedule and contention based MAC protocols is made difficult by their fundamental differences in approach to medium access control. This paper provides a way in which to analyze and compare MAC protocols regardless of their underlying allocation strategy. To that end a framework is developed in which the persistence of any protocol, contention- or schedule-based, can be measured. The framework is used to measure and compare the persistence levels of two prototypical contention- and schedule-based MACs, IEEE 802.11 and Scheduled p-Persistence. An ideal persistence that provides lexicographically max-min fair access to the channel is characterized, and used as a bandwidth allocation scheme. In addition to reducing the unfairness, simulations employing the ideal persistence values show increased throughput and decreased delay and drop rate when compared to either Scheduled p-Persistence or IEEE 802.11.",
keywords = "contention, medium access control, persistence, schedule",
author = "Jonathan Lutz and Charles Colbourn and Violet Syrotiuk",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1145/1868521.1868573",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450302746",
series = "MSWiM'10 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems",
pages = "319--326",
booktitle = "MSWiM'10 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems",
note = "13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2010 ; Conference date: 17-10-2010 Through 21-10-2010",
}