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IEEE 802.11 specification

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midou

midou

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Oct 20, 2002
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Hello, I have a technical question about the IEEE 802.11 standard.
I would like to know what is the maximum number of MAC frame retransmissions before discarding the frame.
 
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I am sure I am misunderstanding your question. If the frame is faulty for any reason it is discarded.

Are you asking how many times a TCP packet is retried?
 
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In the IEEE 802.11 standard each transmitted frame is acknowledged by a recipient. If the sender don't receive an ACK it retransmit the frame again. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF RETRANSMISSION BEFORE THE FRAME IS DISCARDED BY THE SENDER?
 
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The behavior I have observed is that each time the frame is resent, it steps down in transmission speed. If this is the case, the number of times the frame is retransmitted may depend on the original speed at which it was sent.

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