Multi-Carrier Burst Contention (MCBC): Scalable Medium Access Control for Wireless Networks
- 1 March 2008
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 15253511,p. 1667-1672
- https://doi.org/10.1109/wcnc.2008.298
Abstract
With the rapid growth of WLAN capability for mobile devices such as laptops, handhelds, mobile phones and vehicles, we will witness WLANs with very large numbers of active nodes for which very efficient medium access control techniques will be needed to cope with high loads and mobility. We propose a high performance solution based on an innovative node elimination algorithm that uses short and unmodulated bursts of energy during contention - no data is exchanged. We also present a modified OFDM PHY layer, based on IEEE 802.11a, which allows sensing and bursting on individual subcarriers. We show that the protocol maintains a very low overhead and collision probability which lead to high and virtually constant network throughput at all analyzed network loads, even beyond 500 nodes. The protocol is validated by extensive simulation, comparing it against the IEEE 802.11a and SYN-MAC protocols.Keywords
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