NICE - a decentralized medium access control using neighborhood information classification and estimation for multimedia applications in ad hoc 802.11 wireless LANs

Author

Chen, Anderson ; Wang, Li-Chun ; Su, Y.T. ; Zheng, Y.X. ; Yang, Bill ; Wei, David S L ; Naik, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

11-15 May 2003

Firstpage

208

Abstract

The desired properties of a medium access control (MAC) protocol in mobile ad hoc network (MANET) include: (1) meet quality of service (QoS) requirements for real-time nodes, (2) be decentralized, (3) achieve fairness from viewpoint of throughput or energy consumption, and (4) be immune to the hidden node problem. Though there have been numerous proposed MAC protocols for the IEEE 802.11 WLAN, few of them possess all of the four properties mentioned above. Our protocol can support real-time traffic and satisfy QoS requirements, and can achieve fairness among non-real-time nodes. Also, without using any centralized control, it can be easily deployed in MANET. An analytic model of the protocol´s throughput has also been developed. We compare the protocol´s throughput obtained from its analytic model and simulation to validate each other.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; decentralised control; mobile radio; multimedia communication; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; MAC protocol; NICE; QoS; decentralized control; energy consumption; hidden node problem; local area network; medium access control; mobile ad hoc network; multimedia application; neighborhood information classification and estimation; quality of service; real-time traffic; wireless LAN; Access protocols; Analytical models; Centralized control; Energy consumption; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Quality of service; Throughput; Traffic control; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. ICC '03. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7802-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2003.1204171

Filename

1204171