Paper Info
Title
Scheduled Mesh Access Mechanism for an IEEE 802.11 Mesh Network
Abstract
One of the key issues for an IEEE 802.11-based mesh network is the effectiveness of its distributed listen-before-transmit media access control approach. In this paper we proposed one technique, called scheduled mesh access (SMA), for reducing the impact of interference on a mesh network. The SMA mechanism reserves time on the media for future transmissions, and then accesses the media at reserved times using the 802.11 channel access procedures. We study the ability of mesh network employing SMA to avoid non-mesh interference and schedule around self interference. Results indicate that SMA is more robust to interference than the enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) function (defined by in the IEEE 802.1 le amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard), which does not includes a mesh-aware scheduling mechanism.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WCNC.2008.309
WCNC
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
distributed listen-before-transmit media access control,ieee 802.11 mesh network,channel access procedure,scheduled mesh access,mesh-aware scheduling,enhanced distributed channel access,access protocols,ieee standards,media access control,mesh network
Conference
1525-3511
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-1997-5
5
0.74
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ye Chen113321.40
Steve Emeott2536.32