Analytical modeling of enhanced IEEE 802.11 with multiuser dynamic OFDMA under saturation load

Multiuser dynamic OFDMA based IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF) has received significant interest from the researchers in recent time. Though several proposals have been made, to the best of our knowledge, none of these have presented an analytical model for this kind of medium access control protocols for IEEE 802.11. This paper provides a simple, nevertheless, very accurate analytical model to estimate the performance characteristics of IEEE 802.11 DCF with OFDMA under the assumptions of ideal channel conditions and saturation load. Our model accounts for important system parameters like throughput, collision rate, transmission delay, average contention window size, average retry count and average time wasted in backoff. Analytical results are verified through extensive simulations. © 2011 IEEE.