An auto-load-balancing ALOHA system for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

Author

Sarker, Jahangir H. ; Mouftah, Hussein T.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

fYear

2008

fDate

17-18 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

80

Abstract

A new random access system, like ALOHA, is presented in this paper, where each mobile node will either be in a transmitting mode, in a receiving mode or in an idle mode. Results show that the traffic load is independent of the number of nodes, and can be controlled by controlling the transmitting probability, receiving probability and idle mode probability of each mobile node. Certainly, the presented access scheme is suitable for ad hoc and sensor networks, where mobile nodes are transmitting and receiving signals among each other without any central entity, and the number of mobile nodes within operating range cannot be controlled. The system is studied in terms of node transmitting probability, node receiving probability and node idle probability.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; mobile radio; probability; resource allocation; telecommunication traffic; wireless sensor networks; auto-load-balancing ALOHA system; mobile node; node idle probability; node receiving probability; node transmitting probability; random access system; traffic load; wireless ad hoc network; wireless sensor network; Access protocols; Centralized control; Conferences; Electronic mail; Information technology; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Sensor systems; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless sensor networks; ALOHA; Ad hoc network; node transmitting probability; sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotic and Sensors Environments, 2008. ROSE 2008. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2594-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2595-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROSE.2008.4669184

Filename

4669184