The analysis of the additive-increase multiplicative-decrease MAC protocol

Author

Ke Li ; Nikolaidis, Ioanis ; Harms, Janelle

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

18-20 March 2013

Firstpage

122

Lastpage

124

Abstract

The additive-increase multiplicative-decrease MAC (AIMD-MAC) protocol is a distributed multi-access algorithm proposed in our earlier work and it is controlled by three parameters: the update cycle, the additive increase term and the multiplicative decrease factor. It was designed to exploit the multi-packet reception (MPR) capability in wireless networks. We describe the AIMD-MAC protocol and study how the three parameters impact the performance of AIMD-MAC. We demonstrate that the AIMD-MAC with a suitable set of parameters can be adequately used in a dynamic wireless communication environment.

Keywords

access protocols; multi-access systems; radio networks; radio reception; AIMD-MAC; MPR; additive increase term parameter; additive-increase multiplicative-decrease MAC protocol; distributed multiaccess algorithm; dynamic wireless communication environment; multipacket reception capability; multiplicative decrease factor parameter; update cycle parameter; wireless network; Aggregates; Channel capacity; Dispersion; Protocols; Receivers; Throughput; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), 2013 10th Annual Conference on

Conference_Location

Banff, AB

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0747-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WONS.2013.6578335

Filename

6578335