Research on Multi-channel MAC Protocol in Cognitive Mesh Network

Author

Guo, Yang ; Zhao, Tao ; Zhou, Jihua ; Ge, Yuming ; Sun, Yi

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

833

Lastpage

837

Abstract

Based on existing researches on MAC protocol in cognitive mesh network, we propose a distributed reservation-based multi-channel MAC protocol. The protocol adopts TDMA access mechanism and a reservation-based resource scheduling method, and contains a collision avoidance mechanism, which effectively inhibits the problem of hidden terminal and exposed terminal. According to the characteristics of users in cognitive mesh network, we design a channel allocation and selection algorithm, which improves channel utilization. Finally, we conduct simulations on NS2 platform to evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol.

Keywords

channel estimation; cognitive radio; time division multiple access; wireless mesh networks; TDMA access mechanism; channel allocation; channel selection; cognitive mesh network; collision avoidance; distributed reservation; multichannel MAC protocol; reservation-based resource scheduling; Algorithm design and analysis; Channel allocation; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Mesh networks; Throughput; channel allocation; cognitive mesh; collision avoidance; distributed reservation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4873-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2012.173

Filename

6392009