Effects of contention window and packet size on the energy efficiency of wireless local area network

The paper introduces an analytical model to investigate the energy efficiency of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordinated function (DCF). Many factors, such as the number of contending nodes, packet size, contention window, packet transmission collision probability and channel condition, that affect the energy efficiency of 802.11 DCF have been considered. We determine the packet transmission probability by a method simpler than the existing Markov chain model. The paper identifies the tradeoff in choosing packet size to optimize the energy efficiency of DCF in error-prone environments. The effects of contention window and packet size on the energy efficiency are obtained for both DCF basic mode and DCF with four-way handshaking. It is shown that under error-prone environments, optimal packet size can improve more on the energy efficiency than optimal contention window. Combining both optimal contention window and optimal packet size can achieve the maximum optimization. To validate our analytical results, we have done extensive simulations, and they seem to match very well with the presented analytical results.

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