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Zigzag decoding: combating hidden terminals in wireless networks

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Shyamnath Gollakota,

Dina KatabiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 38, Issue 4

Pages 159 - 170

https://doi.org/10.1145/1402946.1402977

Published: 17 August 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents ZigZag, an 802.11 receiver design that combats hidden terminals. ZigZag's core contribution is a new form of interference cancellation that exploits asynchrony across successive collisions. Specifically, 802.11 retransmissions, in the case of hidden terminals, cause successive collisions. These collisions have different interference-free stretches at their start, which ZigZag exploits to bootstrap its decoding.

ZigZag makes no changes to the 802.11 MAC and introduces no overhead when there are no collisions. But, when senders collide, ZigZag attains the same throughput as if the colliding packets were a priori scheduled in separate time slots. We build a prototype of ZigZag in GNU Radio. In a testbed of 14 USRP nodes, ZigZag reduces the average packet loss rate at hidden terminals from 72.6% to about 0.7%.

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 38, Issue 4

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DOI:10.1145/1402946

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