Neighbor-aware dynamic backoff algorithm for wireless multihop ad hoc networks

In this paper, we propose a neighbor-aware dynamic backoff scheme and evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme for ad hoc networks. The backoff scheme that we devised grants node access to the channel, according to the competing number of nodes for a transmitted frame. We use both an analytical model and simulation experiments to evaluate the dynamic performance of our backoff mechanism in an ad hoc network.