A new efficient and robust MAC protocol against multipath fading for ad hoc networks

Author

Watanabe, Shingo ; Kamiya, Yukihiro ; Umebayashi, Kenta ; Suzuki, Yasuo

Author_Institution

Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Koganei

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Wireless ad hoc networks attract interests of researchers. In such networks, data packets are relayed by nodes from a source node to a destination node. This is referred to as multi-hop communication. For such system, it is known that the IEEE802.11 DCF is not efficient. Then, in order to improve the efficiency, several methods were proposed conventionally. However, most of them are not aware of realistic radio environments considering multipath fading. Therefore, the conventional methods can be damaged seriously under multipath fading. In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks, that is robust against multipath fading.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; fading channels; multipath channels; wireless LAN; IEEE802.11 DCF; destination node; multi-hop communication; multipath fading; robust MAC protocol; source node; wireless ad hoc networks; Ad hoc networks; Fading; Land mobile radio; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Robustness; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; MAC protocol; fading; wireless ad hoc network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2008. PIMRC 2008. IEEE 19th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cannes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2643-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2644-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2008.4699467

Filename

4699467