A High-Throughput MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

One way to improve the throughput of a wireless ad hoc network at the media access (MAC) layer is to allow as much as possible concurrent transmissions among neighboring nodes. In this paper, we present a novel high-throughput MAC protocol, called Concurrent Transmission MAC(CTMAC), which supports c...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on wireless communications 2008-01, Vol.7 (1), p.135-145
Main Authors: Wanrong Yu, Jiannong Cao, Xingming Zhou, Xiaodong Wang, Chan, K.C.C., Chan, A.T.S., Leong, H.V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access methods and protocols, osi model
Access protocols
Applied sciences
Channels
Collision avoidance
Data communication
Data transmission
Educational institutions
Exact sciences and technology
Gain
Interference
Media Access Protocol
Mobile ad hoc networks
Networks
Radiocommunications
Receiving
Signal to noise ratio
Systems, networks and services of telecommunications
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Teleprocessing networks. Isdn
Throughput
Transceivers
Transmission
Transmission and modulation (techniques and equipments)
Transmitters. Receivers
Wireless application protocol
Wireless communication
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Summary:One way to improve the throughput of a wireless ad hoc network at the media access (MAC) layer is to allow as much as possible concurrent transmissions among neighboring nodes. In this paper, we present a novel high-throughput MAC protocol, called Concurrent Transmission MAC(CTMAC), which supports concurrent transmission while allowing the network to have a simple design with a single channel, single transceiver, and single transmission power architecture. CTMAC inserts additional control gap between the transmission of control packets (RTS/CTS) and data packets (DATA/ACK), which allows a series of RTS/CTS exchanges to take place between the nodes in the vicinity of the transmitting or receiving node to schedule possible multiple, concurrent data transmissions. To safeguard the concurrent data transmission, collision avoidance information is included in the control packets and used by the neighboring nodes to determine whether they should begin their transmissions. Also, to isolate the possible interference between DATA packets and ACK packets, a new ACK sequence mechanism is proposed. Simulation results show that a significant gain in throughput can be obtained by the CTMAC protocol compared with the existing work including the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol.
ISSN:1536-1276
1558-2248
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2008.06094