| Article ID: | iaor20091154 |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 246 |
| End Page Number: | 254 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers |
| Authors: | Choi Woo-Yong |
In this paper, a new efficient hidden node detection method is proposed to decide whether the RTS/CTS mechanism is necessary to resolve the hidden node problem for the data transmission of each node in infrastructure mode IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. The nodes, for which the RTS/CTS mechanism is found to be not necessary by the hidden node detection method, can transmit their data frames without performing the RTS/CTS exchange. Only the nodes, for which the RTS/CTS mechanism is found to be necessary by the hidden node detection method, perform the RTS/CTS exchange before their data frame transmissions.