An Efficient and Fair MAC Protocol Robust to Reactive Interference

Interference constitutes a major challenge to availability for communication networks operating over a shared medium. This paper proposes the medium access (MAC) protocol AntiJam, which achieves a high and fair throughput even in harsh environments. Our protocol mitigates internal interference, requ...

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Published in:IEEE/ACM transactions on networking 2013-06, Vol.21 (3), p.760-771
Main Authors: Richa, A., Scheideler, C., Schmid, S., Jin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
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Access protocols
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electromagnetic interference
Interference
Jamming
Media Access Protocol
protocols
radio frequency interference
Robustness
Throughput
wireless communication
wireless networks
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Summary:Interference constitutes a major challenge to availability for communication networks operating over a shared medium. This paper proposes the medium access (MAC) protocol AntiJam, which achieves a high and fair throughput even in harsh environments. Our protocol mitigates internal interference, requiring no knowledge about the number of participants in the network. It is also robust to intentional and unintentional external interference, e.g., due to coexisting networks or jammers. We model external interference using a powerful reactive adversary that can jam a (1-ε) -portion of the time-steps, where 0
ISSN:1063-6692
1558-2566
DOI:10.1109/TNET.2012.2210241