A channel access protocol for multihop wireless networks with multiple channels

Author

Muir, Andrew ; Garcia-Luma-Aceves, J.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

7-11 Jun 1998

Firstpage

1617

Abstract

The Group Allocation Multihop Multiple Access (GAMMA) protocol is presented; this protocol schedules data traffic over a multihop, multi-channel, wireless network. GAMMA provides excellent performance and remains stable under all network load levels by dividing the channel into cycles; each cycle is composed of a combination of contention and data slots. Every station in the network has a unique channel for receiving data. Each station maintains a set of stations called the “transmission group”, only members of this group are allowed to transmit data collision-free to the station maintaining the group

Keywords

access protocols; data communication; multi-access systems; packet radio networks; GAMMA protocol; Group Allocation Multihop Multiple Access protocol; channel access protocol; contention slots; data slots; data traffic scheduling; multihop wireless networks; multiple channels; transmission group; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Base stations; Computer networks; Data engineering; Media Access Protocol; Spread spectrum communication; Stability; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1998. ICC 98. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4788-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1998.683102

Filename

683102