Performance analysis of IEEE 802.11 ad hoc based broadcast.

Existing IEEE 802.11 broadcast performance researchers assume that the time taken for a successful frame transmission is the same as that taken for an unsuccessful frame transmission. They do not consider the effects of an extended interframe space (EIFS); therefore, their analysis and simulation results are not consistent with each other. This paper considers the effects of EIFS, modifies the model proposed by Hu, and uses throughput as a performance benchmark. Results of our study show that our proposed method yields results that are closest to the simulation results.