A multiqueue service room MAC protocol for wireless networks with multipacket reception

Author

Zhao, Qing ; Tong, Lang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

Volume

11

Issue

1

fYear

2003

fDate

2/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

137

Abstract

An adaptive medium-access control (MAC) protocol for heterogeneous networks with finite populations is proposed. Referred to as the multiqueue service room (MQSR) protocol, this scheme is capable of handling users with different quality-of-service (QoS) constraints. By exploiting the multipacket reception (MPR) capability, the MQSR protocol adaptively grants access to the MPR channel to a number of users such that the expected number of successfully received packets is maximized in each slot. The optimal access protocol avoids unnecessary empty slots for light traffic and excessive collisions for heavy traffic. It has superior throughput and delay performance as compared to, for example, the slotted ALOHA with optimal retransmission probability. This protocol can be applied to random-access networks with multimedia traffic.

Keywords

access protocols; channel capacity; delays; multimedia communication; optimisation; packet radio networks; quality of service; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; MAC protocol; QoS constraints; adaptive protocol; channel capacity; heterogeneous networks; medium-access control protocol; multimedia traffic; multipacket reception; multiqueue service room protocol; quality-of-service constraints; random-access networks; slotted ALOHA; wireless networks; Access protocols; Adaptive control; Media Access Protocol; Programmable control; Quality of service; Road accidents; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-6692

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNET.2002.808403

Filename

1180550