Title :
A distributed medium access control scheme for a large network of wireless routers
Author :
Zhao, Bin ; Hua, Yingbo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA
fDate :
5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The throughput of a large network of wireless routers critically depends on the design of distributed medium access control (MAC). In this paper, a distributed MAC scheme called opportunistic synchronous array method (SAM) is presented and analyzed. The opportunistic SAM combines multiuser diversity and interference suppression in a distributed fashion. Depending on the choice of two control parameters, the opportunistic SAM may reduce to three specializations: multiuser SAM, switching SAM or deterministic SAM. The network throughput of the opportunistic SAM is analyzed, and its throughput gain over its specializations is illustrated.
Keywords :
access protocols; distributed control; diversity reception; interference suppression; multi-access systems; telecommunication network routing; control parameters; deterministic SAM; interference suppression; medium access control; multiuser SAM; multiuser diversity; opportunistic SAM distributed MAC scheme; opportunistic synchronous array method; switching SAM; wireless router network; Digital relays; Fading; Government; Interference suppression; Media Access Protocol; Mesh networks; Mobile communication; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput;
Journal_Title :
Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TWC.2008.060617
