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Busy tone contention protocol: a new high-throughput and energy-efficient wireless local area network medium access control protocol using busy tone

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M. G. Jibukumar,

Prabir Kumar BiswasAuthors Info & Claims

International Journal of Communication Systems, Volume 25, Issue 8

Pages 991 - 1014

https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.1301

Published: 01 August 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Design of an efficient wireless medium access control (MAC) protocol is a challenging task due to the time-varying characteristics of wireless communication channel and different delay requirements in diverse applications. To support variable number of active stations and varying network load conditions, random access MAC protocols are employed. Existing wireless local area network (WLAN) protocol (IEEE 802.11) is found to be inefficient at high data rates because of the overhead associated with the contention resolution mechanism employed. The new amendments of IEEE 802.11 that support multimedia traffic (IEEE 802.11e) are at the expense of reduced data traffic network efficiency. In this paper, we propose a random access MAC protocol called busy tone contention protocol (BTCP) that uses out-of-band signals for contention resolution in WLANs. A few variants of this protocol are also proposed to meet the challenges in WLAN environments and application requirements. The proposed BTCP isolate multimedia traffics from background data transmissions and gives high throughput irrespective of the number of contending stations in the network. As a result, in BTCP, admission control of multimedia flows becomes simple and well defined. Studies of the protocol, both analytically and through simulations under various network conditions, have shown to give better performance in comparison with the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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August 2012

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