Paper Info
Title
Power-Fixed and Power-Aware MAC Protocols for Multihop Wireless Networks With a Large Interference Area
Abstract
The IEEE 802.11 medium-access control (MAC) protocol is usually considered to be a default standard in multihop wireless networks. However, in a multihop network with a large interference range, the request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) handshake and virtual carrier sensing mechanism may not be able to eliminate interference or solve hidden- and exposed-terminal problems. This paper proposes two new MAC protocols, i.e., the power-fixed dual (PFD) and power-aware dual (PAD) busy-tone schemes, both of which are able to effectively prevent collision of data/acknowledgment (ACK) packets and are applicable in various open-space environments with different path-loss characteristics. Analytical models are developed to evaluate their performance in terms of the blocking area, saturation throughput, and capability of mitigating aggregate interference of simultaneous transmissions. Numerical examples are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed MAC protocols and the interaction between performance metrics and key parameters. Analysis and simulation results indicate that both PFD and PAD schemes can achieve a much higher throughput and a lower packet-collision ratio than IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF), conservative CTS reply (CCR), and dual busy-tone multiple-access (DBTMA) schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TVT.2008.2012157
IEEE T. Vehicular Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
power-fixed dual scheme,ad hoc network,medium-access control (mac),power control,radiofrequency interference,request-to-send,ieee 802.11,clear-to-send,ieee 802.11 mac protocol,multihop wireless network,interference elimination,medium-access control protocol,power-aware dual scheme,large interference area,virtual carrier sensing mechanism,access protocols,performance evaluation,interference suppression,rts-cts handshake mechanism,wireless lan,path loss,wireless application protocol,wireless networks,ieee 802 11,spread spectrum communication,throughput
Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance for Wireless,Wireless network,IEEE 802.11,Computer science,Power control,Computer network,Distributed coordination function,Throughput,Wireless ad hoc network,Wireless Application Protocol
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
6
0018-9545
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
13
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Supeng Leng170267.45
Yan Zhang25818354.13
Hsiao-Hwa Chen36623425.11
Jie Xiang417011.18
Mohsen Guizani56456557.44