Distributed flow-based scheduling in multi-hop ad hoc networks

Author

Yang, Daiqin ; Li, Victor O K

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., China

Volume

7

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 June 2004

Firstpage

4167

Abstract

Shared channel contention-based MAC protocols, such as IEEE 802.11, are popular in ad hoc networks because of their ease of implementation. However, these contention-based MAC protocols do not coordinate between nodes at different hops within a multi-hop flow. This results in channel resource and node transmission power wastage and overall system throughput degradation. In this paper we present a novel distributed flow-based scheduling (DFBS) scheme that coordinates between neighbor links of a multi-hop flow. As demonstrated by the simulation results, DFBS achieves higher throughput and improves the transmission efficiency when traffic load is relatively high.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; radio links; scheduling; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11; channel resource; distributed flow-based scheduling; multihop ad hoc networks; node transmission power; shared channel contention-based MAC protocols; system throughput degradation; traffic load; transmission efficiency; Ad hoc networks; Bandwidth; Degradation; Intelligent networks; Media Access Protocol; Scheduling algorithm; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8533-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2004.1313333

Filename

1313333