An Improvement of MACA in Alleviating Hidden Terminal Problem in Adhoc Networks

Author

Han, Tao ; Lu, Weijie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (HUST), Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Some MAC protocols such as CSMA/CA, MACA adopt backoff mechanism when collisions occur in hidden terminal problem. In this paper, backoff mechanism is entirely abandoned. Instead, the basic idea of PCF is applied to solve hidden terminal problem. When collisions occur at a node, the node considers that there is more than one node means to transmit data to it. Then this node gets control of the channel. It polls all of the one-hop neighbor nodes in its polling list to enquire whether it has data to transmit. This mechanism greatly decreases the unnecessary contending time in backoff mechanism. More time is used to transmit useful payload. As a result, channel utilization is enhanced greatly. Unfairness problem in backoff mechanism is also solved.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; channel allocation; telecommunication congestion control; MAC protocol; adhoc network; backoff mechanism; channel utilization; hidden terminal problem; multiple access collision avoidance; Collision avoidance; Costs; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Payloads; Performance analysis; Relays; Turning; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3692-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3693-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2009.5301824

Filename

5301824