THE SIMULATION OF PROTOCOL 802.11 INFLUENCE ON NETWORK ACCESS METHOD FOR WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the influence of traffic in relation to data transmission which arrived from several
nodes by applying 802.11 protocol with CSMA/CA method. The simulation was performed using MATLAB with 5
nodes and 16 data packets with simulation time of 600 ms. The result of this experiment shows that the
utilization of CSMA/CA as protocol provides better results than CSMA. The
number of transmitted packets improve twice as much as when using CSMA method.

Keyword(s): Protocol 802.11, CSMA/CA, RTS, CTS, ACK.

Subject Description : C.2. Computer-Communication Networks | C.2.0 General | Data communications