Code assignment for hidden terminal interference avoidance in multihop packet radio networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Priority scheduling in wireless ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Video Processing and Communications
Video Processing and Communications
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Decentrally controlled wireless multi-hop mesh networks for high quality multi-media communications
MSWiM '05 Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Distributed medium access control for wireless mesh networks: Research Articles
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing - Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Improving TCP performance over wireless ad hoc networks with busy tone assisted scheme
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Capacity Improvement and Analysis for Voice/Data Traffic over WLANs
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
An Interference Aware Distributed Resource Management Scheme for CDMA-Based Wireless Mesh Backbone
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Saturation throughput analysis of IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed coordination function
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A Distributed End-to-End Reservation Protocol for IEEE 802.11-Based Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A CDMA/TDD approach for wireless mesh networks
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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Wireless mesh networking is a promising wireless technology for future broadband Internet access. In this paper, a novel collision-free medium access control (MAC) scheme supporting multimedia applications is proposed for wireless mesh backbone. The proposed scheme is distributed, simple, and scalable. Benefiting from the fixed locations of wireless routers, the proposed MAC scheme reduces the control overhead greatly as compared with conventional contention-based MAC schemes (e.g., IEEE 802.11). In addition, the proposed scheme can provide guaranteed priority access to real-time traffic and, at the same time, ensure fair channel access to the routers with data traffic. Unlike most of the existing MAC schemes which focus on single-hop transmissions, the proposed MAC scheme takes the intra-flow correlations between up-stream and downstream hops of a multi-hop flow into consideration. To avoid buffer overflow at bottleneck routers, a simple but effective congestion control mechanism is proposed. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme significantly improves the delay performance of real-time traffic and the end-to-end data throughput, as compared with IEEE 802.11 and distributed packet reservation multiple access (DPRMA). The performance analysis of the proposed scheme is also presented. The accuracy of the analytical results is verified by computer simulations.