Analysis of maximum throughput for RTS/CTS-used bidirectional wireless multi-hop networks
Takuya Sugimoto, Nobuyoshi Komuro, Hiroo Sekiya, and Shiro Sakata
IEICE Technical Committee on Information Networks, vol.109, no.449, pp.217-222, Feb., 2010. [pdf document]

<Abstract>

Although several quantitative throughput analyses for wireless multi-hop networks have been reported, few analyses have examined the use of RTS/CTS in IEEE 802.11 DCF multi-hop networks. While RTS/CTS is effective for avoiding packet collisions caused by hidden terminals, an overhead problem occurs due to the increase in the number of RTS/CTS control packets. This leads to the importance of quantitative analyses of the maximum throughput in typical network topologies. This paper proposes a novel approach to the analyses of the maximum UDP throughput for networks that use RTS/CTS by considering two-way flow in string multi-hop networks. The comparison between the analytical results and simulation results validates the proposed analyses.