Enhanced Synchronized Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Cao, Xiaojun ; Liu, Shenbo ; Pan, Lei ; Wu, Hongyi

Author_Institution

Georgia State Univ., Atlanta

fYear

2007

fDate

13-16 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

278

Lastpage

283

Abstract

An enhanced synchronized medium access protocol, named ES-MAC, for wireless ad hoc networks is proposed in this paper. ES-MAC employs a binary-countdown scheme to resolve contentions between wireless stations. Multiple contention periods and hidden station elimination periods are adopted to increase the throughput and channel utilization of the system. Our simulation and analysis show that ES-MAC can achieve a promising performance in terms of throughput, fairness and channel utilization. With channel utilization as high as 96%, ES-MAC can also be employed as an alternative MAC protocol in wireless access network.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; channel allocation; synchronisation; ES-MAC; binary-countdown scheme; channel utilization; enhanced synchronized medium access control protocol; wireless ad hoc network; Access protocols; Analytical models; Data communication; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Scheduling; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Medium Access Control; Wireless Networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1251-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-2055

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2007.4317832

Filename

4317832