@inproceedings{c71ccb42f11a4ff2adca22d226779ed4,
title = "SRA: Slot reservation announcement scheme for medium access control of IEEE 802.11 crowded networks in emergency scenarios",
abstract = "In this paper we propose the Slot Reservation Announcement (SRA) access scheme to minimize the occurrence of channel-access collisions in infrastructure IEEE 802.11 networks under emergency and crowded scenarios. SRA is based on slot reservation in lieu of a randomized backoff approach to increase the channel-access success ratio. The proposed scheme rids IEEE 802.11-like access networks of throughput and utilization collapse under crowded scenarios. In turn, it increases channel utilization. This enabled access is critical for crowded networks under emergency scenarios where many stations suddenly contend for the channel. This scheme may be used as fallback mechanism to avoid throughput collapse in such scenarios and to enable critical communications. Our simulation results show maximum bandwidth utilization and increased throughput as compared to an IEEE 802.11 network and a recent reservation-based access scheme under crowded conditions.",
keywords = "IEEE 802.11, Medium access control, WiFi, collision avoidance, crowded networks, wireless networks",
author = "Kazerooni, {Sina Fathi} and Roberto Rojas-Cessa",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.; 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017 ; Conference date: 21-05-2017 Through 25-05-2017",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1109/ICC.2017.7996961",
language = "English (US)",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Communications",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
editor = "Merouane Debbah and David Gesbert and Abdelhamid Mellouk",
booktitle = "2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2017",
address = "United States",
}