Improving the multiple access method of CSMA/CA home networks
Miguel Elias M. Campista, Luís Henrique M. K. Costa, Otto Carlos M. B. Duarte · 2006
A home network is a communication system that aims to interconnect household appliances and share the access to the Internet. This work proposes a novel mechanism which is able to improve the multiple access method of home networks. The Contention window Proactive Increase (CPI) mechanism avoids collisions by increasing the number of times the backoff procedure is called. We applied the CPI mechanism to the IEEE 802.11 and HomePlug standards given their similar access methods. We show the efficiency of the proposed mechanism evaluating through simulations the network throughput gains compared to the original standards. 1.