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E-MAC: an evolutionary solution for collision avoidance in wireless ad hoc networks

Zhao, H; Wei, J; Sarkar, NI; Huang, S
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Transmission collision is a main cause of throughput degradation and non-deterministic latency in wireless networks. Existing collision-avoidance mechanisms for distributed wireless networks are mostly based on the random backoff strategy, which cannot guarantee collision-free accesses. In this paper, we design a simple collision-avoidance MAC (E-MAC) for distributed wireless networks that can iteratively achieve collision-free access. In E-MAC, each transmitter will adjust its next transmission time according to which part of its packets suffering from the collision. And the iteration of this adjustment will quickly lead group of nodes converging to a collision-free network. E-MAC does not require any central coordination or global time synchronization. It is scalable to new entrants to the network and variable packet lengths. And it is also robust to system errors, such as inaccurate timing.
 
Transmission collision is a main cause of throughput degradation and non-deterministic latency in wireless networks. Existing collision-avoidance mechanisms for distributed wireless networks are mostly based on the random backoff strategy, which cannot guarantee collision-free accesses. In this paper, we design a simple collision-avoidance MAC (E-MAC) for distributed wireless networks that can iteratively achieve collision-free access. In E-MAC, each transmitter will adjust its next transmission time according to which part of its packets suffering from the collision. And the iteration of this adjustment will quickly lead group of nodes converging to a collision-free network. E-MAC does not require any central coordination or global time synchronization. It is scalable to new entrants to the network and variable packet lengths. And it is also robust to system errors, such as inaccurate timing.
 
Keywords
Wireless networks; Collision avoidance; MAC; Distributed algorithm
Date
March 3, 2016
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Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol.65(1), pp.1 - 11 (11)
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Journal Article
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Elsevier
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10.1016/j.jnca.2016.02.010
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2016.02.010
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