简介：Backoffmechanismisakeycomponentofcontention-basedmediumaccesscontrol(MAC)layerprotocol.IthasbeenshownthatthebackoffmechanismofIEEE802.11standardmaybeveryinefficientespeciallywhenthenetworkiscongested.Numbersofmethodshavebeenproposedtotunethecontentionwindow(CW)withtheaimtoachievetheoptimalthroughputinIEEE802.11WLANs.However,themechanismsdonotspecificallyaddresspropersettingsforthevariablepacketlengthinfluenceandCWdivergingproblem.Thispaperproposesanovelfour-wayhandshakingfull-feedbackbackoffalgorithmnamedadoptivecontentionwindowbackoff(ACWB)toovercomethesedrawbacks.Theperformanceoftheproposedalgorithmisinvestigatedthroughanalysisandsimulation.SimulationresultsdemonstratethattheACWBalgorithmprovidesaremarkableperformanceimprovementintermsofshort-termfairness,packetdelayanddelayjitter,whilemaintaininganoptimalthroughputclosetothetheoreticalthroughputlimitoftheIEEE802.11distributedcoordinationfunction(DCF)accessscheme.

简介：Afull-duplexopticalpassiveaccessschemeisproposedandverifiedbysimulation,inwhichhybrid64/16/4-quadratureamplitudemodulation(64/16/4QAM)orthogonalfrequencydivisionmultiplexing(OFDM)opticalsignalisfordownstreamtransmissionandnon-return-to-zero(NRZ)opticalsignalisforupstreamtransmission.Inviewofthetransmittingandreceivingprocessfordownlinkopticalsignal,in-phase/quadrature-phase(I/Q)modulationbasedonMach-Zehndermodulator(MZM)andhomodynecoherentdetectiontechnologyareemployed,respectively.Thesimulationresultsshowthatthebiterrorratio(BER)lessthanhardwaredecisionforwarderrorcorrection(HD-FEC)thresholdissuccessfullyobtainedovertransmissionpathwith20-km-longstandardsinglemodefiber(SSMF)forhybriddownlinkmodulationOFDMopticalsignal.Inaddition,bydividingthesystembandwidthintoseveralsubchannelsconsistingofsomecontinuoussubcarriers,itisconvenientforuserstoselectdifferentchannelsdependingonrequirementsofcommunication.