A high-throughput MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks

Author

Yu, Wanrong ; Cao, Jiannong ; Zhou, Xingming ; Wang, Xiaodong ; Chan, Keith C. C. ; Chan, Alvin T. S. ; Leong, H.V.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 March 2006

Lastpage

409

Abstract

One way to improve the throughput of a wireless ad hoc network at the media access (MAC) layer is to allow concurrent transmission among neighboring nodes as much as possible. In this paper, we present a novel high-throughput MAC protocol, called CTMAC, that supports concurrent transmission while letting the MANET enjoy the simple design with a single channel, single transceiver, and single transmission power architecture. CTMAC inserts additional control gap between the transmission of control packets (RTS/CTS) and data packet (DATA/ACK), which allows a serious of RTS/CTS exchanges to take place before the possible multiple, concurrent data transmissions. To ensure that concurrent data transmission finishes correctly, the collision avoidance information is included in control packets, and used by neighboring nodes to determine whether begin their transmissions or not. Simulation results show that a significant gain in throughput can be obtained by CTMAC protocol compared with the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; CTMAC; MAC protocol; MANET; collision avoidance information; concurrent data transmission; control packet transmission; data packet; media access control protocol; single channel architecture; single transceiver architecture; single transmission power architecture; wireless ad hoc network; Ad hoc networks; Collision avoidance; Computer science; Data communication; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Power control; Scheduling; Throughput; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. PerCom Workshops 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2520-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2006.8

Filename

1599016