Paper Info
Title
CLA-MAC: A cooperative extension of load adaptive MAC protocol
Abstract
The use of cooperative communications techniques has proven to significantly improve network performance. In this paper, we propose a cooperative extension of load adaptive MAC (LA-MAC) protocol proposed earlier by us as a hybrid CSMA-TDMA protocol for MANETs. We describe the design and GNU radio implementation of our protocol to which we refer as cooperative LA-MAC (CLA-MAC). Our protocol design takes into account frame structure, message exchange, multiple relay selection policies, and contention avoidance. The relay selection policies of the protocol include two practically viable alternatives, namely, the nearest neighbor and largest harmonic mean channel. Experiments confirm that both relay selection policies proposed by CLA-MAC protocol can achieve lower packet error rates and smaller packet delays compared to the original LA-MAC in the cases of poor signal quality reception at a destination.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127794
MILCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
carrier sense multiple access,cooperative communication,mobile ad hoc networks,time division multiple access,cla-mac protocol,manet,cooperative communication techniques,frame structure,harmonic mean channel,hybrid csma-tdma protocol,load adaptive mac protocol,multiple relay selection policy,nearest neighbor,packet delays,packet error rates,signal quality reception,mobile computer,signal to noise ratio,ad hoc networks,mobile computing,ad hoc network,network performance,harmonic mean,harmonic analysis,packet error rate
Resource Reservation Protocol,Reverse Address Resolution Protocol,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Neighbor Discovery Protocol,Time division multiple access,Address Resolution Protocol,Relay,Internetwork protocol,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2155-7578
978-1-4673-0079-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huang, H.100.34
Yousefi'zadeh, Homayoun2293.83
Hamid Jafarkhani37037695.30