An Adaptive Reliable Broadcast/Multicast MAC Protocol

Author

Li, Qing ; Yu, HongYi ; Zhang, Dalong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., ZhengZhou Inf. Sci. & Technol. Inst., Zhengzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

To improve the efficiency and flexibility of reliable broadcast/multicast MAC protocol in wireless multi-hop network, a novel adaptive reliable broadcast/multicast MAC protocol (ARBMAC) is brought forward. The core idea of it is based on the broadcast/multicast cost function, which is proposed by analyzing different realizations of reliable broadcast/multicast. According to the function, the most efficient realization in different scenes can be found. Thus, the protocol could select adaptively the optimal realization for every broadcast/multicast packet in various scenarios. Extensive analysis and simulation results validate the reliability and efficiency of ARBMAC.

Keywords

access protocols; multicast communication; packet radio networks; adaptive reliable broadcast/multicast MAC protocol; broadcast/multicast cost function; wireless multihop network; Broadcast technology; Broadcasting; Media Access Protocol; Multicast protocols; Multimedia communication; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication network reliability; Unicast; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.761

Filename

4678669