A reservation-based distributed MAC scheme for infrastructure wireless networks

IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function achieves only limited performance because of the considerable idle time caused by the backoff procedure and the high rate of transmission collisions at high loads. In this paper, we propose a novel reservation-based distributed medium access control (MAC) scheme for infrastructure wireless networks. The proposed reservation-based MAC scheme, with the help of an Access Point, introduces low control overheads and provides collision-free data transmission, thus maximizing system performance.