A new efficient medium access control protocol for multi-hop wireless mesh networks

  • Authors:
  • Jianliang Zheng;Myung J. Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • The City College of CUNY, New York, NY;The City College of CUNY, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a new medium access control (MAC) scheme, which exploits the code division multiple access (CDMA) technology to provision many-to-one simultaneous wireless communication service without utilizing any time division multiple access (TDMA) scheme. This, combined with existing one-to-one (i.e., unicast) and one-to-many (i.e., multicast or broadcast) wireless communication services, brings into life a new communication paradigm, that is, mesh communications. The new scheme also supports accumulative receptions, namely, a receiver can buffer partially damaged (re-)transmitted frames and add those frames efficiently to form an error-free frame. Our simulation results show that the new scheme outperforms IEEE 802.11 in both non-mobile and mobile environments.