ARC-MAC: An automatic relay cooperative MAC protocol for wireless Ad Hoc networks

Author

Li, Nan ; Cheng, Naiping ; Xu, Xiaotie ; Cai, Yueming ; Luo, Yijie

Author_Institution

PLA Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

13-15 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we present a cooperative MAC protocol called automatic relay cooperative MAC (ARC-MAC) for wireless Ad Hoc networks. ARC-MAC develops the 802.11 DCF to five handshakes, which is suitable for cooperative transmission. According to the channel condition, neighbors decide whether it is a relay by itself, and the relay helps the source transmitting packets with a definite probability. An analytical model is also presented to compute the throughput of the ARC-MAC, and the results show ARC-MAC can improve the system performance greatly.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; 802.11 DCF; ARC-MAC; packet transmission; relay cooperative MAC protocol; wireless ad hoc networks; Analytical models; Degradation; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Programmable logic arrays; Relays; System performance; Telecommunication network reliability; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Ad Hoc networks; MAC; cooperative communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications & Signal Processing, 2009. WCSP 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4856-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5668-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCSP.2009.5371398

Filename

5371398