Markov analysis of the mobile hidden station problem in MANET

Author

Rahman, Kazi Atiqur ; Jaber, Nabih ; Tepe, Kemal E.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2011

fDate

4-8 July 2011

Firstpage

2186

Lastpage

2191

Abstract

This paper provides Markov analysis of mobile hidden station problem in the medium access control (MAC) layer of vehicular/mobile ad hoc networks (VANET/MANET). If a mobile station enters a collision free zone of any ongoing communication and interferes with this communication, it is called a mobile hidden station, and problems associated with mobile hidden stations is called mobile hidden station problem. The mobile hidden station problem severely degrades the throughput and the delay performances of mobile networks. In order to show the effect of mobile hidden station problem, the Markov models of IEEE 802.11 with and without mobile hidden station problem are developed. The developed models show that mobile hidden station increases collisions at the receivers and decreases the throughput up to 36 percent. This paper shows that mobile hidden station problem must be resolved while designing a MAC layer protocol for VANET/MANET.

Keywords

Markov processes; access protocols; mobile ad hoc networks; telecommunication congestion control; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11; MAC layer protocol; Markov analysis; collision free zone; delay performances; medium access control layer; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile hidden station problem; receiver collisions; throughput; vehicular ad hoc networks; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Markov processes; Media Access Protocol; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Radiation detectors; Throughput; MAC layer; MANET/VANET; Markov chain; access delay; mobile hidden station problem; probability of collision;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2011 7th International

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9539-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWCMC.2011.5982612

Filename

5982612