Paper Info
Title
Majority Voting-Based Mac Protocol For Exploiting Link-Layer Diversity In Wireless Networks
Abstract
In wireless local area networks (WLANs), the effect of interference signals between neighboring nodes increases as the number of wireless nodes using limited radio frequency resources in a limited space increases, which can significantly degrade the reliability of data transmission. In high-density WLANs, there can be several neighboring access points (APs) that can receive uplink transmission from a station. In conventional medium access control (MAC) protocols, uplink data frames containing errors or transmitted from a non-associated station are discarded at APs. Alternatively, we propose a MAC protocol using redundant wireless links between neighboring APs and the non-associated stations. In the proposed MAC protocol, we consider a centralized WLAN with a control node that performs error corrections of erroneous uplink data frames via a majority voting algorithm-based link-layer diversity scheme using uplink data received from multiple APs to increase the reliability of data transmission. In addition, we propose an adaptive carrier sensing ranging mechanism to improve the uplink network throughput in the proposed centralized WLAN system. Further, we conduct simulation studies and software-defined radio-based experiments to evaluate the performance of the proposed MAC protocol in various WLAN scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/s21082706
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
centralized WLAN, link-layer diversity combining, MAC protocol
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1424-8220
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaehyoung Park122.41
Yonggang Kim210.38
Gyungmin Kim311.39
Hyuk Lim467351.93