A MAC Protocol for Bursty Traffic Ad-Hoc Wireless LANs with Energy Efficiency

Authors:
Petros Nicopolitidis;Georgios I. Papadimitriou;Andreas S. Pomportsis
Affiliations:
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 54124;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 54124;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 54124
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2012

Citing 5
Cited 1

Learning automata: an introduction

Learning automata: an introduction
A Low Power Adaptive Mac Protocol for Infrastructure Wireless LANS

ICNS '07 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Networking and Services
A Mac Protocol for Ad-Hoc Wireless Lans with Reduced Energy Consumption

AICT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications
Data aggregation in sensor networks using learning automata

Wireless Networks
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

An adaptive backbone formation algorithm for wireless sensor networks

Computer Communications

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

A Self-Adaptive Low Power MAC protocol with carrier sensing for ad-hoc Wireless LANs (WLANs), which is capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic is proposed in this letter. The protocol utilizes a Learning Automaton structure at each station of the WLAN. Each such structure uses the network feedback to select the mobile station that will transmit. A low-power mode is implemented in order to significantly reduce the energy consumption of the protocol. Simulation results reveal that the low power mode of the proposed protocol reduces the average energy consumption at the mobile stations by as much as 70%.