Modelling and Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF Using Coloured Petri Nets.

IEEE 802.11, as the standard protocol for wireless local area networks, has achieved substantial developments during recent years and has been widely used in industry and in our daily life. The fundamental access method of the protocol is the distributed coordinated function (DCF), in which the carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance is used to enable the automatic medium sharing am...