Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

3-2003

Abstract

This paper presents the initial design and performance study of MACA-P, a RTS/CTS based MAC protocol that enables simultaneous transmissions in multihop ad-hoc wireless networks. Providing such low-cost multihop and high performance wireless access networks is an important enabler of pervasive computing. MACA-P is a set of enhancements to the 802.11 DCF that allows parallel transmissions in many situations when two neighboring nodes are either both receivers or both transmitters, but a receiver and a transmitter are not neighbors. Like 802.11, MACA-P contains a contention-based reservation phase prior to data transmission. However, the data transmission is delayed by a control phase interval, which allows multiple sender-receiver pairs to synchronize their data transfers, thereby avoiding collisions and improving system throughput.

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications PerCom 2003: Fort Worth, Texas, 23-26 March

First Page

505

Last Page

508

ISBN

9780769518930

Identifier

10.1109/PERCOM.2003.1192780

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

City or Country

Los Alamitos, CA

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2003.1192780

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