A framework for the calculation of the throughput due to saturated sources in an IEEE802.11 [1] network with both the basic access, without RTS/CTS, as the RTS/CTS enabled access is proposed in [3] and related papers based on a Markov chain evaluation of a single-hop CSMA-CA network.
An extended model incorporates the maximum retransmission limit, the maximum window size and the non-saturation behavior.
A highly accurate value of the throughput can be obtained.