The Impact of RTS Threshold on IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol

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Wireless technologies and applications received great attention in
recent years. The medium access control (MAC) protocol is the main
element that determines the efficiency in sharing the limited
communication bandwidth of the wireless channel in wireless local area
networks (WLANs). The request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS)
mechanism is an optional handshaking procedure used by the IEEE
802.11 wireless network to reduce the possibility of collision. The
RTS_Threshold (RT) value which determines when the RTS/CTS
handshaking mechanism should be used is an important parameter to
investigate; since different RT values will produce different performance
characteristics in data transmission. This paper presents an evaluation of
the influence of the RT parameter on the IEEE 802.11 wireless network,
and gives a guideline to dynamically adjust the RT value. Simulation
results of this paper show that, in order to achieve the best performance,
the RT should be dynamically adjusted according to the environment.
However, we suggest to have the RTS/CTS always activated (RT = 0),
saving complex work designing and implementing a dynamic RT
mechanism, to obtain a near best performance.

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