Improved Opportunistic Auto Rate Media Access Protocol for Multi-Rate Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Qian, Liping ; Zhou, Jinfang ; Qian, Ying ; Chen, Kangsheng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Fairness of performance has been considered as a key object in multi-rate ad hoc networks. Some researchers proposed opportunistic auto rate (OAR) media access protocol, which is based on IEEE 802.11, to implement fair performance for each sender. However, OAR protocol still cannot avoid unfair performance in some topologies. In this paper, we improve OAR protocol in order to satisfy fair performance as far as possible. This modified OAR protocol is called improved opportunistic auto rate (IOAR) protocol. IOAR protocol consists of two interactive components: an equiprobable auto rate (EAR) protocol and a probabilistic mechanism. IOAR ensures equal bandwidth utilization rate, and each transmitter can share bandwidth according to its transmission rate. We perform a set of ns-2 simulations to study the efficiency of IOAR

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; telecommunication network topology; IEEE 802.11; equal bandwidth utilization rate; equiprobable auto rate protocol; improved opportunistic auto rate media access protocol; multi-rate ad hoc networks; ns-2 simulations; probabilistic mechanism; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Aggregates; Bandwidth; Ear; Information science; Media Access Protocol; Network topology; Throughput; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2006. WiCOM 2006.International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0517-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCOM.2006.223

Filename

4149400