TY - GEN
T1 - Performance of two way opportunistic MAC protocol in non-saturated ad hoc networks
AU - Ahmad, Rizwan
AU - Hasna, Mazen O.
AU - Abu-Dayya, Adnan
PY - 2012/6/15
Y1 - 2012/6/15
N2 - In this paper, performance of relay based MAC protocol for two way traffic is evaluated in non-saturated condition. In real life, non-saturation is more prevalent where nodes are mostly idle. The idea of Two Way Opportunistic-Medium Access Control (TWO-MAC) protocol is inspired from the current drive to 'go green'. TWO-MAC uses high data rate nodes to work as relays (by using network coding) for the low data rate nodes in two way communications. TWO-MAC results in higher throughput, lower delays and reduced energy consumption. This is due to the use of relay and network coding for two way transmission which lowers overall blocking time and contention due to faster transmission. Further, it lowers unnecessary overhead and overhearing which reduces the energy consumption. The contribution in this work is the throughput, energy and delay gains of using network coding at the relay in a realistic non-saturated network.
AB - In this paper, performance of relay based MAC protocol for two way traffic is evaluated in non-saturated condition. In real life, non-saturation is more prevalent where nodes are mostly idle. The idea of Two Way Opportunistic-Medium Access Control (TWO-MAC) protocol is inspired from the current drive to 'go green'. TWO-MAC uses high data rate nodes to work as relays (by using network coding) for the low data rate nodes in two way communications. TWO-MAC results in higher throughput, lower delays and reduced energy consumption. This is due to the use of relay and network coding for two way transmission which lowers overall blocking time and contention due to faster transmission. Further, it lowers unnecessary overhead and overhearing which reduces the energy consumption. The contribution in this work is the throughput, energy and delay gains of using network coding at the relay in a realistic non-saturated network.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84871987150
U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364962
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364962
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871987150
SN - 9781457720529
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 6029
EP - 6034
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2012
Y2 - 10 June 2012 through 15 June 2012
ER -