A Distributed CSMA Algorithm for Throughput and

Utility Maximization in Wireless Networks

Aim:
 In Multi Hop Wireless Network we have to effectively utilize the network resources and
provide fairness to competing data flow. The right amount of traffic should be maintained
in order to send more data.

Concept:
• Cross-layer optimization is an escape from the pure waterfall-like concept of the OSI
communications model with virtually strict boundaries between layers. The cross layer
approach transports feedback dynamically via the layer boundaries to enable the
compensation

• Carrier Sense Multiple Access: It is a probabilistic Media Access Control (MAC)

protocol in which a node verifies the absence of other traffic before transmitting on a
shared transmission medium, such as an electrical bus, or a band of the electromagnetic
spectrum.

• Congestion control concerns controlling traffic entry into a telecommunications network,

so as to avoid congestive collapse by attempting to avoid oversubscription of any of the
processing or link capabilities of the intermediate nodes and networks and taking
resource reducing steps, such as reducing the rate of sending packets. It should not be
confused with flow control, which prevents the sender from overwhelming the receiver.

• Maximal throughput: It is a procedure for scheduling data packets in a packet-switched

best-effort communications network, typically a wireless network, in view to maximize
the total throughput of the network, or the system spectral efficiency in a wireless
network.