Medium Access Control Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks Using Dynamic Contention Window

Since Bianchi's 2-D Markov Chain Model considers collision problem only in ideal channel condition, it does not reflect real channel impaired by fading, interference, and noise. Distributed Coordination Function(DCF) doubles its contention window(CW) when transmission fails regardless of collision or transmission error. Increase of CW caused by transmission error degrade throughput and increase the delay. In this paper, we present quantitative analysis of the impact of the parameters such as contention window size(CW), transmission probability for a given time slot(), transmission failure probability(), on the system performance and provide a method how to decrease the initial CW to achieve equivalent performance.