Distributed Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science) - Softcover

Wang, Ping; Zhuang, Weihua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461466016 ISBN 13: 9781461466017

Publisher: Springer, 2013

Synopsis

This brief investigates distributed medium access control (MAC) with QoS provisioning for both single- and multi-hop wireless networks including wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless ad hoc networks, and wireless mesh networks.

For WLANs, an efficient MAC scheme and a call admission control algorithm are presented to provide guaranteed QoS for voice traffic and, at the same time, increase the voice capacity significantly compared with the current WLAN standard. In addition, a novel token-based scheduling scheme is proposed to provide great flexibility and facility to the network service provider for service class management.

Also proposed is a novel busy-tone based distributed MAC scheme for wireless ad hoc networks and a collision-free MAC scheme for wireless mesh networks, respectively, taking the different network characteristics into consideration. The proposed schemes enhance the QoS provisioning capability to real-time traffic and, at the same time, significantly improve the system throughput and fairness performance for data traffic, as compared with the most popular IEEE 802.11 MAC scheme.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1461466016
• ISBN 13: 9781461466017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 121