Partnership-Based Cooperative MAC Protocol

Author

Rabarijaona, Verotiana H. ; Shimamoto, Shigeru

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Global Inf. & Telecommun. Studies, Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We propose a partnership-based cooperative MAC protocol (PC-MAC) based on the distributed coordination function (DCF) protocol in wireless networks. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we introduce a cooperative interframe space (CIFS) for latency reduction and second, we introduce a control frame called request to cooperate (RTC) for on-demand packet relaying for error recovery. We compare PC-MAC with the non-cooperative DCF protocol. The analysis results show that using cooperation improves the theoretical maximum achievable throughput and the saturation throughput.

Keywords

access protocols; radio networks; cooperative interframe space; distributed coordination function protocol; error recovery; latency reduction; maximum achievable throughput; noncooperative DCF protocol; on-demand packet relaying; partnership-based cooperative MAC protocol; request to cooperate; saturation throughput; wireless networks; Access protocols; Communications Society; Counting circuits; Delay; Frame relay; Media Access Protocol; Telecommunication control; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2010 7th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5175-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5176-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2010.5421706

Filename

5421706