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CAM-MAC: A Cooperative Asynchronous Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks (2006)
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| Venue: | IEEE BROADNETS |
| Citations: | 22 - 8 self |
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@MISC{Luo06cam-mac:a,
author = {Tie Luo and Mehul Motani and Vikram Srinivasan},
title = {CAM-MAC: A Cooperative Asynchronous Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks},
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
Medium access control (MAC) protocols have been studied under different contexts for several years now. In all these MAC protocols, nodes make independent decisions on when to transmit a packet and when to back-off from transmission. In this paper, we introduce the notion of node cooperation into MAC protocols. Cooperation adds a new degree of freedom which has not been explored before. Specifically we study the design of cooperative MAC protocols in an environment where each node is equipped with a single transceiver and has multiple channels to choose from. Nodes cooperate by helping each other select a free channel to use. We show that this simple idea of cooperation has several qualitative and quantitative advantages. Our cooperative asynchronous multi-channel MAC protocol (CAM-MAC) is extremely simple to implement and, unlike other multi-channel MAC protocols, is naturally asynchronous. We conduct extensive simulation experiments. We first compare CAM-MAC with IEEE 802.11b and a version of CAM-MAC with the cooperation element removed. We use this to show the value of cooperation. Our results show significant improvement in terms of number of collisions and throughput for CAM-MAC. We also compare our protocol with MMAC and SSCH and show that CAM-MAC significantly outperforms both of them.
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cooperative asynchronous multi-channel mac protocol ad hoc network mac protocol quantitative advantage several year significant improvement medium access control independent decision new degree node cooperate extensive simulation experiment node cooperation free channel cooperation element simple idea single transceiver multi-channel mac protocol different context cooperative mac protocol multiple channel
