Peer-to-peer communication in wireless local area networks

Author

Naraghi-Pour, Mort ; Hegde, Manju ; Pallapotu, Ramesh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

12-15 Oct 1998

Firstpage

432

Lastpage

439

Abstract

A new MAC protocol which supports peer-to-peer direct communication is introduced for a packet switched wireless network. Terminals that are located within range of each other and are sufficiently isolated from the base station can communicate with their peers directly without the use of the base station as a relay. Slotted Aloha is used as the access protocol. Throughput and delay of the protocol are evaluated. Numerical results are presented which show that significant improvements in throughput/delay performance can be obtained over a system using slotted Aloha without peer-to-peer communication

Keywords

access protocols; delays; packet radio networks; radio links; wireless LAN; MAC protocol; access protocol; base station; data terminals; delay; downlink channel; packet switched wireless network; peer-to-peer communication; performance; relay; slotted Aloha; throughput; uplink channel; wireless local area networks; Access protocols; Base stations; Communication switching; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Packet switching; Peer to peer computing; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 1998. Proceedings. 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lafayette, LA

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9014-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.1998.739946

Filename

739946