SYN-MAC: a distributed medium access control protocol for synchronized wireless networks

Authors:
Hongyi Wu;Anant Utgikar;Nian-Feng Tzeng
Affiliations:
The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA;The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA;The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
Venue:
Mobile Networks and Applications
Year:
2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel medium access control (MAC) protocol, called SYN-MAC (for SYNchronized MAC), based on a binary countdown approach tailored for wireless networks. SYN-MAC has several attractive features such as simplicity, robustness, high efficiency, fairness, and quality of service capability. We evaluate SYN-MAC in terms of collision probability, system throughput, and packet delay, via both analysis and simulation. Our results show that, with properly chosen parameters, SYN-MAC can achieve a very low collision probability, packet delay tolerance, and extremely high channel efficiency (of 90%) under a wide range of traffic load. As a result, SYN-MAC may serve as an alternative to IEEE 802.11 for the wireless stations in synchronized networks.