Title
HD-MAC: A Throughput Enhancing TDMA-Based Protocol in High Dynamic Environments
Abstract
Distributed TDMA medium access protocol plays an important role in stabilizing the throughput under various network states. The major challenge of implementing such protocol lies in the difficulty of slot assignment. Previous works provide a variety of mechanisms to implement the collision-free slot assignment. However, when network topology changes frequently, existing approaches suffer from low throughput due to the waste of idle slots. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed TDMA protocol called HD-MAC to improve the throughput performance under high dynamic change of network topology. Specifically, we come up with a frame structure with fixed length and establish a network join principle regarding the slot assignment for the newly added node, which avoid the overhead of maintaining extra frame length information among nodes. In addition, we adopt a contention-based channel access mechanism for enhancing the utilization of the idle slots, thus increasing the overall throughput. Finally, simulation results are demonstrated to validate the effectiveness of HD-MAC.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/MSN.2016.025
2016 12th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medium Access Control Protocol,Distributed TDMA,Network Performance,High Dynamic Network
Computer science,Idle,HD-MAC,Computer network,Communication channel,Network topology,Knowledge engineering,Throughput,Time division multiple access,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-5697-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianyi Wang129427.78
Xiong Wang201.01
Xiaohua Tian356865.92
Xiaoying Gan434448.16