Erasure correction-based CSMA/CA
Résumé
It is well known that the performance of carrier sense multiple access with collision
avoidance (CSMA/CA) is poor when the number of users increases, because of collisions.
In this paper, we consider a modified version of CSMA/CA based on erasure codes
at the packet level, which significantly reduces the complexity of the decoding and does not
require any change in the underlying physical layer. In order to improve the performance we
use non-binary maximum distance separable (MDS) codes. We give analytical derivation
of the global goodput and show that there is a trade-off between the code parameters and
the length of the contention window in order to maximize the global goodput for a given
number of users.