  In this technical report, the throughput performance of CSMA networks with
two representative receiver structures, i.e., the collision model and the
capture model, is characterized and optimized. The analysis is further applied
to an IEEE 802.11 network, which is a representative wireless network that
adopts the CSMA mechanism, where the optimal initial backoff window sizes of
nodes to achieve the maximum network throughput are derived and verified
against simulation results.
