IEEE 802.11 over multi-hop wireless networks: problems and new perspectives

Author

Hsieh, Hung-Yun ; Sivakumar, Raghupathy

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

748

Abstract

The IEEE 802.11 standard for medium access control in wireless local area networks has been adopted as the de-facto medium access control standard in multi-hop wireless networks. In this paper we contend that the unique characteristics that differentiate multi-hop wireless networks from local area wireless networks render the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol inefficient in the former class of networks. Through simulations we substantiate our arguments, and consider the key changes required to adapt the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol for multi-hop wireless networks.

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; digital simulation; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol; IEEE 802.11 standard; medium access control; medium access control standard; multi-hop wireless networks; simulation model; simulations; wireless local area networks; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Media Access Protocol; Routing protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks; Wireless personal area networks; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. Proceedings. VTC 2002-Fall. 2002 IEEE 56th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7467-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2002.1040699

Filename

1040699