A Hybrid Link-TDMA MAC Protocol for Conventional and Radio over Fiber WLANs

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameter	Value
Physical data rate	MCS0-MCS9
Basic physical data rate	MCS0
Channel bandwidth	20 MHz
Antenna type	SISO
OFDM guard interval	Long
Acknowledgment timeout	300 μsec
Retry limit	7
CW min	15
CW max	1023
SIFS	16 μsec
AIFS	Best effort 43 μsec
Slot time	9 μsec
HL-TDMA link slot duration	3 msec
Air propagation delay	3 nsec
Optical fiber length	0-22 km
MAC payload	1500 bytes
Traffic	Saturated UDP
PHY preamble	20 μsec
PHY header	20 μsec
MAC header	34 bytes
Number of mobile stations	1-20
Simulation time	10 sec