Performance Evaluation of The SYN-MAC Protocol in Multihop Wireless Networks

Author

Pan, Lei ; Wu, Hongyi

Author_Institution

Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette

fYear

2007

fDate

13-16 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

271

Abstract

Due to the complexity of throughput analysis in wireless networks with multiple collision domains, how to model system performance in multihop wireless networks remains challenging. Based on our previous proposed synchronized medium access control (SYN-MAC) protocol and its performance analysis in single collision domain, we propose an effective analytic model with low computational complexity for evaluating the performance of SYN-MAC in multihop wireless networks. Our simulation results verify the numerical analysis very well, showing the effectiveness of our proposed approach. Furthermore, an enhanced SYN-MAC protocol is presented to optimize its channel efficiency and throughput in multihop wireless networks. Our simulation results show the SYN-MAC protocol significantly outperforms IEEE 802.11 in all scenarios, regardless of the payload sizes, network sizes, or nodal densities.

Keywords

access protocols; computational complexity; numerical analysis; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11; SYN-MAC protocol; computational complexity; multihop wireless networks; multiple collision domains; numerical analysis; performance evaluation; synchronized medium access control; throughput analysis complexity; Access protocols; Computational complexity; Computational modeling; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Spread spectrum communication; System performance; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1251-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-2055

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2007.4317830

Filename

4317830