Paper Info
Title
MACA-APT: A MACA-based Adaptive Packet Train transmission protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks
Abstract
In wireless communications, collision is one of the principal sources of energy wastage, which often makes collision avoidance strategies preferred for medium access control (MAC) protocols. In this paper, we propose a collision avoidance-based MAC protocol called MACA-based Adaptive Packet Train (MACA-APT), which has been designed specifically for underwater acoustic networks (UANs). The design explicitly accounts for prominent characteristics of UANs such as long propagation delays and typically high bit error rates. In particular, the former is compensated via the transmission of multiple consecutive packets to multiple different receivers; the latter, instead, is tackled by embedding a cross-layer Stop-&-Wait ARQ scheme within MACA-APT. The performance of the proposed protocol is evaluated via simulations and compared to another MAC protocol, also based on MACA, showing that MACA-APT achieves better performance for low to intermediate packet generation rates, and equivalent performance at higher rates. Moreover, we assess the impact of the packet train size on the performance of either protocol. This result is a first step towards the design of adaptive multi-packet multi-receiver MAC protocols for underwater networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2671490.2674580
WUWNET
Keywords
Field
DocType
design,underwater acoustic networks,adaptive packet train length,measurement,simulation,simulation output analysis,maca,performance evaluation,mac protocols,collision avoidance,performance,data communications
Embedding,Wireless,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Collision,Real-time computing,Access control,Transmission protocol,Underwater
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Saiful Azad1284.55
Paolo Casari233432.89
Khandekar Tabin Hasan330.75
Michele Zorzi47079736.49