Discussion on impact of carrier sense range on available bandwidth for IEEE802.11 based ad hoc networks

Abstract

Advances in wireless technology and portable computing along with demand for greater user mobility has provided a major impetus towards development of an emerging class of self organizing, rapidly deployable network architecture referred to as ad hoc networks. Lot of research work in estimating available bandwidth is carried out in last few decades. It has been shown that bandwidth consumption is not local concept but depends upon the transmission going in the channel itself. The link characteristic of channel plays an important role in this regard. The different sensing range affects the transmission of node. We present our study on how the carrier sense range affects the various parameters which are helpful in estimating available bandwidth. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.