Randomized Initialization Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A Five-Phase Reservation Protocol (FPRP) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Wireless Networks
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
An Optimal Channel Access Protocol with Multiple Reception Capacity
IEEE Transactions on Computers
TDMA scheduling design of multihop packet radio networks based on latin squares
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
HIPERLAN/1 MAC protocol: stability and performance analysis
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A access-based clustering protocol for multihop wireless ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Distributed power management protocols for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Integrated connection-level and packet-level QoS controls over wireless mesh networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Distributed power management protocols for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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In a multihop MANET (mobile ad-hoc network), reliable broadcast support at the MAC layer will be of great benefit to the routing function, multicasting applications, cluster maintenance, and real-time systems. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid MAC protocol, called the adaptive location-aware broadcast (ALAB) protocol, for link-level broadcast support in multichannel systems. ALAB is scalable and mobility-transparent since it does not require any link state information. Above all, in ALAB, both deadlock and hidden terminal problems are completely solved. In principle, ALAB tries to combine both of the advantages of the allocation- and contention-based protocols and overcomes their individual drawbacks. At high traffic or density, ALAB outperforms the pure TDMA because of spatial reuse and dynamic slot management. At low traffic or density, ALAB outperforms the pure CSMA/CA because of its embedded stable tree-splitting algorithms. In addition, ALAB provides deterministic access delay bounds from its base TDMA allocation protocol. Simulation results do confirm the advantage of our scheme over other MAC protocols, such as IEEE 802.11, ADAPT, and ABROAD, even under the fixed-total-bandwidth model.