On the Flow Classification Thresholds of FD-MAC Protocol

Author

Wang, Hai ; Cui, Lianjing ; Weibo Yu ; Dong, Chao ; Renhui Xu

Author_Institution

Nanjing Inst. of Commun. Eng., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

5-9 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Flow Driven MAC Protocol (FD-MAC) is a slot based MAC protocol which is designed for long distance wireless multi hop transmission. With the flow-driven resource reservation mechanism, FD-MAC protocol is especially suitable to be used for wireless ad hoc network with dynamic traffic pattern. We suggest that the Flow Classification Thresholds (FCTs) of the protocol are the key parameters to the performance of the protocol, that are not yet been fully investigated. Then the values of the parameters are analyzed theoretically, and the optimal values are given in turn. Simulation result validates our analysis; best performance of the protocol would be achieved when optimal FCT values are chosen.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; dynamic traffic pattern; flow classification threshold; flow driven MAC protocol; flow-driven resource reservation mechanism; long distance wireless multihop transmission; slot based MAC protocol; wireless ad hoc network; Ad hoc networks; Media Access Protocol; Mobile computing; Peer to peer computing; Throughput; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-232-5

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/icc.2011.5963191

Filename

5963191