MARCH: a medium access control protocol for multihop wireless ad hoc networks

Author

Toh, C.K. ; Vassiliou, Vasos ; Guichal, Guillermo ; Shih, C.-H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

512

Abstract

The multiple access with reduced handshake (MARCH) protocol utilizes the broadcast characteristics of an omnidirectional antenna to reduce the number of control messages required to transmit a data packet in multihop ad hoc networks. In MARCH, the RTS-CTS handshake is used only by the first hop of a route to forward data packets while for the rest it utilizes a new CTS-only handshake. Since fewer control packets are transmitted, the probability of packet collision is reduced and therefore the channel throughput is increased. Simulation results demonstrate that MARCH outperforms MAC protocols that employ only the RTS-CTS handshake

Keywords

access protocols; broadcast antennas; land mobile radio; multi-access systems; packet radio networks; MAC protocols; MARCH protocol; RTS-CTS handshake; broadcast characteristics; channel throughput; control messages reduction; control packets transmission; data packet forwarding; data packet transmission; medium access control protocol; mobile hosts; multihop wireless ad hoc networks; multiple access with reduced handshake; omnidirectional antenna; packet collision probability; performance evaluation; simulation results; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile computing; Multiaccess communication; Road accidents; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MILCOM 2000. 21st Century Military Communications Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6521-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2000.905007

Filename

905007