A Passive Self-Configuration MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11-Based Multi-Hop MANETs

Author

Shih, Kuei-Ping ; Wang, Sheng-Shih ; Lin, Hsieh-Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Tamkang Univ., Taipei

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

5-7 June 2006

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

31

Abstract

The paper proposes a passive self-configuration MAC protocol (PSC-MAC) for IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop MANETs. PSC-MAC focuses on determining multiple supervising sets, each of which consists of some power-rich stations, supervisors, to be in charge of the network management. Supervisor determination in PSC-MAC is achieved by a passive manner due to less communication overhead. The main idea of PSC-MAC is beacon interleaving, which guarantees that supervisors in different supervising sets transmit beacons in the different beacon intervals. The proposed rules, deficiency, isolation, and partition rules, enable each station to dynamically and passively transit its role to either a supervisor or a member. Simulation results show that PSC-MAC outperforms IEEE 802.11 and the previous research in terms of supervisor determination, clock synchronization, and energy efficiency

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; mobility management (mobile radio); synchronisation; IEEE 802.11; MAC protocol; clock synchronization; energy efficiency; media access control; mobile ad hoc network; multihop MANET management; passive self-configuration; supervisor determination; Batteries; Bismuth; Clocks; Delay; Energy efficiency; Interleaved codes; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Spread spectrum communication; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taichung

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2553-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUTC.2006.13

Filename

1636248