Driver Level Implementation of TDMA MAC in Long Distance WiFi

Author

Ahmed, S.S. ; Hussain, I. ; Ahmed, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., North-Eastern Hill Univ., Shillong, India

fYear

2015

fDate

12-13 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

85

Abstract

Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) MAC protocol in WiFi-based Long Distance (WiLD) networks has proved to be suitable solution in supporting long distance communications. Open source Atheros driver in Linux environment is found to be a flexible platform for implementing TDMA in WiLD networks. The earlier developments over this open source driver is limited to 802.11 a/b/g standards. But, ath9k device driver support is required for the latest 802.11n standard. In this paper, we build a TDMA-based MAC protocol using ath9k driver to achieve long distance communications. The various steps in implementing the protocol is discussed. Also, we examine the performance of the implemented protocol over point-to-point link.

Keywords

Linux; device drivers; public domain software; time division multiple access; wireless LAN; Atheros driver; Linux environment; MAC protocol; TDMA MAC; ath9k driver; driver level implementation; long distance Wi-Fi; long distance communication; point-to-point link; time division multiple access; Hardware; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Monitoring; Synchronization; Time division multiple access; CSMA; TDMA; WiLD; ath9k;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Networks (CINE), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bhubaneshwar

ISSN

2375-5822

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7548-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CINE.2015.25

Filename

7053808