On the scalability of IEEE 802.11 ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Starvation mitigation through multi-channel coordination in CSMA multi-hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
XORs in the air: practical wireless network coding
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
TDM MAC protocol design and implementation for wireless mesh networks
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Improving IEEE 802.11 performance in chain topologies through distributed polling and network coding
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Interference, Even with MCCA Channel Access Method in IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networks
MASS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems
Does the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol work well in multihop wireless ad hoc networks?
IEEE Communications Magazine
MAClets: active MAC protocols over hard-coded devices
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Semi-Random Backoff: Towards resource reservation for channel access in wireless LANs
ICNP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols. ICNP 2009
One size hardly fits all: towards context-specific wireless MAC protocol deployment
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
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Wireless mesh networks appear a promising solution for providing ubiquitous low-cost wireless access, but cannot rely on simple CSMA access protocols because of the critical inefficiencies that arise in topologies with hidden nodes. To overcome these limitations, some important protocol extensions based on synchronization and reservation mechanisms have been ratified. In this paper we show that an alternative approach to the standardization of new features and signaling messages for mesh networks can be the utilization of programmable nodes able to execute different MAC protocols programmed on the fly. Signaling messages are used only for disseminating the new protocol among the nodes. The scheme, that we call pseudo-TDMA, can be optimized as a function of the node density in the network. Apart from the numerical evaluations, we also run some experiments by exploiting our prototype of wireless programmable node called Wireless MAC Processor.