An Evolutionary Topology Unaware TDMA MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Li, Wei ; Wang, Shan ; Wei, Ji-Bo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha

fYear

2008

Firstpage

4825

Lastpage

4829

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an evolutionary topology unware TDMA MAC protocol (E-TUTM) which improves upon the existing threaded time spread multiple access (T-TSMA) protocol while preserving the advantage of the T-TSMA protocol. According to the current network topology and traffic load, our proposed E-TUTM protocol can control each node to utilize the shared wireless channel effectively by the protocol threading technique and the hybrid channel access strategy. In this paper, we present the E-TUTM protocol and analyze the performance of it. Simulation results show that our proposed E-TUTM protocol improves the performance dramatically as compared with the T-TSMA protocol.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; channel allocation; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; wireless channels; ad hoc networks; evolutionary topology unaware TDMA MAC protocol; hybrid channel access strategy; network topology; protocol threading technique; threaded time spread multiple access protocol; traffic load; wireless channel; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Circuit topology; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Polynomials; Scheduling; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiple access; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2008. ICC '08. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2008.904

Filename

4533940