MMAC-HR: Multi-Channel Medium Access Control with Hopping Reservation for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks

Author

Almotairi, Khaled Hatem ; Shen, Xuemin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

6-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we study the multi-channel exposed terminal problem in multi-hop wireless networks. We first explain how the multi-channel exposed terminal problem occurs. We then propose a multi-channel MAC protocol, called multi-channel MAC with hopping reservation (MMAC-HR), to resolve the multi-channel exposed terminal problem. The proposed MMAC-HR protocol has the following features: 1) it does not require clock synchronization; 2) it uses channel hopping without exchanging information; 3) it is distributed; and 4) it is based on CSMA/CA for all channels. Simulation results by using the ns-2 simulator are given to demonstrate the performance of the proposed multi-channel MAC protocol.

Keywords

access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; radio networks; CSMA/CA; MMAC-HR; hopping reservation; multichannel MAC protocol; multichannel exposed terminal problem; multichannel medium access control; multihop wireless networks; Ad hoc networks; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Peer to peer computing; Switches; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Miami, FL

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5636-9

Electronic_ISBN

1930-529X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684198

Filename

5684198