On multiple access random medium access control

Authors:
Tao Cui;Tracey Ho
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA;Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Venue:
ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 3
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we develop a new class of medium access control protocol, which allows each user to transmit at different data rates chosen randomly from an appropriately determined set of rates. By using successive interference cancellation, multiple packets can be received simultaneously. In slotted Aloha type Gaussian networks, we show that the achievable total throughput of the proposed protocol is at least a constant fraction of the mac sum rate when the number of transmission rates at each node is equal to the number of users in the network. We also study the case when only a limited number of transmission rates is available at each node. Extension to rate splitting is discussed. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol can achieve a significant throughput gain over the conventional Aloha.