Could cooperative MAC protocols improve performance in multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks?

Authors:
Lakshmi Narasimhan Kannan;Kumaran Vijayasankar;Divya ChanneGowda;Niraj Agarwal;Marco Tacca;Andrea Fumagalli
Affiliations:
The OpNeAR Laboratory, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas;The OpNeAR Laboratory, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas;VMware Corporation and The OpNeAR Laboratory, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas;Microsoft Corportation and The OpNeAR Laboratory, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas;The OpNeAR Laboratory, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas;The OpNeAR Laboratory, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas
Venue:
WONS'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The study in this paper investigates the use of (single-hop) cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocols in multi-hop radio networks. The objective is to assess whether the cooperative MAC protocols available in literature can improve performance in multi-hop ad hoc networks. A simulation based comparison is carried out in order to evaluate the potential performance gains and other benefits. The comparison is purposefully carried out over static and pre-computed routes to capture the full magnitude of the potential gains brought about by the cooperative MAC protocols, regardless of the routing protocol in use. Results indicate that performance gains are highly dependent on the type of cooperative MAC protocol adopted.