Dynamic contention resolution in multiple-access channels

  • Authors:
  • Dongxiao Yu;Qiang-Sheng Hua;Weiguo Dai;Yuexuan Wang;Francis C. M. Lau

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, P.R. China;Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • WWIC'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communication
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Contention resolution over a multiple-access channel can be modeled as a k -selection problem in wireless networks, where a subset k of n network nodes want to broadcast their messages over a shared channel. This paper studies a dynamic version of this problem, which assumes that k messages arrive at an arbitrary set of k nodes (contenders) asynchronously and the message arrival pattern is determined by an on-line adversary. Under this harsh and more practical assumption, we give a randomized distributed algorithm which can guarantee any contender deliver its message in O (k +log2n ) rounds with high probability. Our proposed algorithm neither relies on collision detection, nor a global clock or any knowledge about the contenders, not even its size k . Furthermore, we do not assume the channel can provide any kind of feedback information, which makes our protocol work in simple channels, such as the channels used in wireless sensor networks.