Period-controlled MAC for high performance in wireless networks

Authors:
Minsik Lee;Youngjip Kim;Chong-Ho Choi
Affiliations:
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea;School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Venue:
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose Period-Controlled Medium Access Control (PC-MAC), which can operate in pseudo-TDMA manner and achieves high throughput and fairness in simple networks. PC-MAC works like CSMA/CA initially and becomes a pseudo-TDMA scheme in a few seconds due to the periodic backoff mechanism along with the contention control that tries to maintain the number of idle slots to an optimal level. Simulation results show 10%-50% higher throughput than distributed coordination function (DCF), depending on the number of nodes, while maintaining nearly perfect fairness. Furthermore, we also show how PC-MAC can successfully be applied to complex networks.