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Sensors 2010, 10, 2821-2842; doi:10.3390/s100402821 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Performance Analysis and Improvement of WPAN MAC for Home Networks Saurabh Mehta * and Kyung Sup Kwak UWB Wireless Communication Research Center, Inha University, Nam-Gu, Incheon 402-751, Korea; E-Mail: kskwak@inha.ac.kr * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: suryanand.m@; Tel.: +82-10-5775-7536; Fax: +82-32-876-7349 Received: 18 January 2010; in revised form: 3 February 2010 / Accepted: 18 March 2010 / Published: 29 March 2010 Abstract: The wireless personal area network (WPAN) is an emerging wireless technology for future short range indoor and outdoor communication applications. The IEEE 802.15.3 medium access control (MAC) is proposed to coordinate the access to the wireless medium among the competing devices, especially for short range and high data rate applications in home networks. In this paper we use analytical modeling to study the performance analysis of WPAN (IEEE 802.15.3) MAC in terms of throughput, efficient bandwidth utilization, and delay with various ACK policies under error channel condition. This allows us to introduce a K-Dly-ACK-AGG policy, payload size adjustment mechanism, and Improved Backoff algorithm to improve the performance of the WPAN MAC. Performance evaluation results demonstrate the impact of our improvements on network capacity. Moreover, these results can