Dynamic adaptation of CSMA/CA MAC protocol for wide area wireless mesh networks

Authors:
B. S. Manoj;Ping Zhou;Ramesh R. Rao
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, CA 92093-0436, United States;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, CA 92093-0436, United States;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, CA 92093-0436, United States
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Though the popular IEEE 802.11 DCF is designed primarily for Wireless LAN (WLAN) environments, today it is being widely used for wide area wireless mesh networking. The protocol parameters of IEEE 802.11 such as timeout values, interframe spaces, and slot durations, sufficient for a general WLAN environment, need to be modified in order to efficiently operate in wide area wireless mesh networks. The current wide area wireless mesh network deployments use manual configuration of these parameters to the upper limit which essentially makes the networks operate at lower system efficiency. In this paper, we propose d802.11 (dynamic 802.11) which dynamically adapts the protocol parameters in order to operate at varying link distances. In fact, in 802.11, a transmitter can face ACK/CTS timeout even when it started receiving ACK/CTS packet before the timeout value. We present three strategies, (i) multiplicative timer backoff (MTB), (ii) additive timer backoff (ATB), and (iii) link RTT memoization (LRM), to adapt the ACK_TIMEOUT in d802.11 in order to provide better adaptation for varying link dimensions. Through extensive simulation experiments we observed significant performance improvement for the proposed strategies. We also theoretically modeled the maximum link throughput as a function of the link dimension for the proposed system. Our results show that the LRM technique provides the best adaptation compared to all other schemes.