Abstract
Multichannel MAC protocol (MMAC) was proposed by So et al. It divides time into beacon periods and consists of an announcement traffic information message (ATIM) phase and a data phase (So et al. Proceedings of 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing(Mobihoc’04),2006). Nodes negotiate during the ATIM phase on a common channel and transmit data in data phase on multiple channels. But one negotiation window in each beacon period limits the networks performance in multi-hop scenario which plays the main role in Wireless mesh networks (WMNs). In this chapter, researchers propose Synchronized Multi-Interface MAC protocol (SMIMAC), in which the ATIM phase is divided into multiple short windows. And each of them is followed by a short data window. Without increasing the sum of negotiations time, multiple but short consultation windows can provide negotiation opportunities for those nodes which fail to consult before and those nodes which are away from the sender when they have packets to transmit. The simulation results show that the scheme achieves seven time higher aggregate network throughput and average packet delay reduced to 32 % of MMAC in multi-hop scenario.
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Time synchronization in wireless networks can be achieved using either out-of-band (such as GPS) or in-band solutions (such as IEEE 802.11 timing synchronization function (TSF) [2]) and has been discussed extensively in [6, 10, 11]. Developing a scheme for clock synchronization in WMNs is outside the scope of this chapter.
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This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (60972068), the Scientific Research Starting Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education of China (2010-1561), the Science Research Project of Education Committee of Chongqing (KJ080507, KJ120510), the International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Program (S2010GR0902), the special fund of Chongqing key laboratory (CSTC), and the transformation project of excellent achievement of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (Kjzh11206), the open project of Emergency Communication Laboratory of Chongqing (201201), and the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (A2009-53).
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Lei, H., Ren, Z., Huang, J., Gao, C., Guo, Y. (2014). A New Synchronized Multi-interface MAC Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks. In: Xing, S., Chen, S., Wei, Z., Xia, J. (eds) Unifying Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 238. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4981-2_171
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