A Novel Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Lo, Shou-Chih ; Tseng, Chia-Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Dong Hwa Univ., Hualien

fYear

2007

fDate

22-25 April 2007

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

50

Abstract

The medium access control (MAC) protocol, which coordinates channel access between wireless stations, significantly affects network throughput of wireless ad hoc networks. A MAC protocol that is based on a multi-channel model can achieve high throughput by enabling more simultaneous transmission pairs in the network. In this paper, we investigate different designs of multi-channel MAC protocols and classify them according to different negotiation strategies for channel selection. We then propose a novel design by combining the advantages of two different categories. The simulation results show that our proposed protocol can significantly outperform two representative protocols

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; wireless LAN; wireless channels; medium access control protocols; multi-channel MAC protocol; wireless ad hoc networks; Access protocols; Broadcasting; Communication system control; Deafness; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Switches; Throughput; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC2007-Spring. IEEE 65th

Conference_Location

Dublin

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0266-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2007.22

Filename

4212450