Title : 
Research on Multi-channel MAC Protocol in Cognitive Mesh Network
         
        
            Author : 
Guo, Yang ; Zhao, Tao ; Zhou, Jihua ; Ge, Yuming ; Sun, Yi
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of Comput. Technol., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Based on existing researches on MAC protocol in cognitive mesh network, we propose a distributed reservation-based multi-channel MAC protocol. The protocol adopts TDMA access mechanism and a reservation-based resource scheduling method, and contains a collision avoidance mechanism, which effectively inhibits the problem of hidden terminal and exposed terminal. According to the characteristics of users in cognitive mesh network, we design a channel allocation and selection algorithm, which improves channel utilization. Finally, we conduct simulations on NS2 platform to evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol.
         
        
            Keywords : 
channel estimation; cognitive radio; time division multiple access; wireless mesh networks; TDMA access mechanism; channel allocation; channel selection; cognitive mesh network; collision avoidance; distributed reservation; multichannel MAC protocol; reservation-based resource scheduling; Algorithm design and analysis; Channel allocation; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Mesh networks; Throughput; channel allocation; cognitive mesh; collision avoidance; distributed reservation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Chengdu
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-4873-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CIT.2012.173