A Scalability Analysis of TDMA-Based Ad Hoc MAC Protocols

Authors:
Sang-Chul Kim;Chong-Woo Woo
Affiliations:
School of Computer Science, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea 136-702;School of Computer Science, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea 136-702
Venue:
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part I
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method to perform quantitative analysis of message complexity. It applies this method to compare message complexity of TDMA-based ad hoc MAC protocols. Since the network resource of ad hoc networks is limited due to the wireless communication channel, the scalability issue is a major research topic in developing ad-hoc algorithms. Simulation demonstrates the TDMA-based MAC protocol has the lowest message complexity and Z-MAC has the highest message complexity of the TDMA-based ad-hoc MAC protocols. Based on these results, this research can be further developed to distinguish the relationship between the message exchanges and improve performance for the collision-free time schedule.