A Mac Protocol for Ad-Hoc Wireless Lans with Reduced Energy Consumption

  • Authors:

  • Petros Nicopolitidis;Georgios I. Papadimitriou;Andreas S.Pomportsis;Konstantinos Pappas

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • AICT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper proposes a Low Power Adaptive (LPA) MAC protocol for ad-hoc Wireless LANs (WLANs), which is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions. The protocol utilizes a Learning Automaton at each node of the WLAN. Each Automaton utilizes network feedback to select the mobile station that will be granted permission to transmit. We implement a low-power option to reduce the energy consumption of the protocol in medium-to high network loads.