Partnership-based cooperative MAC protocol

Authors:
Verotiana H. Rabarijaona;Shigeru Shimamoto
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We propose a Partnership-based Cooperative MAC protocol (PC-MAC) based on the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) protocol in wireless networks. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we introduce a Cooperative InterFrame Space (CIFS) for latency reduction and second, we introduce a control frame called Request to Cooperate (RTC) for on-demand packet relaying for error recovery. We compare PC-MAC with the non-cooperative DCF protocol. The analysis results show that using cooperation improves the theoretical maximum achievable throughput and the saturation throughput.