Multihop wireless IEEE 802.11 LANs: a prototype implementation

Author

Lin, Ying-Dar ; Hsu, Yu-Ching ; Oyang, Kuan-Wen ; Tsai, Tzu-Chieh ; Yang, Dong-Su

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1568

Abstract

We present a prototype for a new architecture, MCN (multihop cellular network), implemented over a wireless LAN platform. MCN preserves the virtue of traditional single-hop cellular networks where the service infrastructure is constructed by many bases, but it also adds the flexibility of ad-hoc networks where wireless transfer through mobile stations in multiple hops is allowed. The MCN can reduce the number of required bases or improve the throughput performance. On IEEE 802.11 compliant wireless LAN products, a bridging protocol, our BMBP (base-driven multihop bridging protocol), runs between mobile stations and access points to build bridging tables. The demonstration shows that MCN is a feasible architecture for wireless LANs

Keywords

IEEE standards; cellular radio; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; BMBP; access points; ad-hoc networks; base-driven multihop bridging protocol; bridging tables; mobile stations; multihop cellular network; multihop wireless IEEE 802.11 LAN; network architecture; packet radio; prototype implementation; service infrastructure; single-hop cellular networks; throughput performance; wireless LAN platform; wireless transfer; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Computer architecture; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Local area networks; Packet radio networks; Prototypes; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. ICC '99. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5284-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1999.765486

Filename

765486