Title :
Overcoming MAC Overhead Using Packet-Size Dependent Channel Widths
Author :
Raman, Vijay ; Wu, Fan ; Proulx, Brian ; Vaidya, Nitin H.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
In this work, we have proposed to partition a channel into a narrow and a wide subchannel for overcoming MAC overheads. The narrow subchannel is used for sending short packets and the wide channel is used for sending long packets. We have proposed a centralized algorithm for partitioning the channel and have discussed some interesting problems when extending this to a distributed algorithm.
Keywords :
access protocols; distributed algorithms; MAC overhead; centralized algorithm; channel partitioning; distributed algorithm; narrow subchannel; packet-size dependent channel width; wide channel; Bandwidth; Communication networks; Communications Society; HTML; Internet; Payloads; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Sensor Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2010 7th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7150-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7151-5
DOI :
10.1109/SECON.2010.5508208
