Implementation and performance analysis of cooperative Medium Access Control protocol for CSMA/CA based technologies

Author

Grauballe, Anders ; Jensen, Mikkel Gade ; Paramanathan, Achuthan ; Fitzek, Frank H P ; Madsen, Tatiana Kozlova

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

fYear

2009

fDate

17-20 May 2009

Firstpage

107

Lastpage

112

Abstract

In this paper we investigate three different MAC protocols based on CSMA/CA in terms of throughput and channel access delay. The investigation is based on analytical models and real implementations on a testbed developed for this purpose. While the first MAC approach is alike IEEE802.11, the other two approaches are based on packet aggregation per node and on cooperative approaches. It can be shown that the two novel MAC schemes are increasing the throughput compared to the standard CSMA/CA approach, but only the cooperative approach is resulting in lower channel access delays.

Keywords

access control; access protocols; cooperative systems; radiocommunication; telecommunication standards; IEEE802.11; MAC protocols; analytical models; cooperative medium access control protocol; lower channel access delays; packet aggregation; Access protocols; Delay; Frequency; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless communication; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Conference, 2009. EW 2009. European

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5935-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EW.2009.5358009

Filename

5358009