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MULTI-CHANNEL MEDIUM ACCESS PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
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CHOWDHURY, KAUSHIK ROY
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Year and Degree
2006, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering : Computer Science.
Abstract
As wireless technology becomes increasingly pervasive, there is a need for decentralized medium access control (MAC) protocols that satisfy user requirements at an acceptable cost of complexity and energ consumption. Hardware improvements have provided for multi-channel transceivers and leveraging this benefit necessitates further work in higher layer protocols. As devices get smaller leading to large networks formed of tiny sensor motes, the allocation of available channels without a central authority and their subsequent arbitration is a challenging task. In our work, we address this by first devising a channel allocation protocol (DCA) that ensures interference-free communication. We then propose a multi-channel MAC, C-MAC that enables energy efficient data transfer without tradeoffs in latency or throughput, and allows nodes to remain in their low-power sleep period for the maximum possible time. Apart from sensor networks, we have also analyzed the case for wireless local area networks (WLANs) that are the default providers of community and enterprise level internet connectivity. A judicious choice of the operational channel based on current network conditions can greatly improve performance in randomly deployed or hotspot areas. Our analytical estimation of interference allows each access point (AP) to independently arrive at the best channel, thus resulting in fewer re-transmissions due to neighboring traffic. For all the proposed schemes, a thorough performance evaluation has been undertaken and results reveal major improvement in performance for both WLAN and sensor networks, thus proving the viability of multi-channel communication models.
Committee
Dr. Dharma Agrawal (Advisor)
Pages
81 p.
Keywords
Graph coloring,
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Medium Access Control,
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Multi-channel,
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Sensor networks,
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Wireless LAN.
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CHOWDHURY, K. R. (2006).
MULTI-CHANNEL MEDIUM ACCESS PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1142571415
APA Style (7th edition)
CHOWDHURY, KAUSHIK.
MULTI-CHANNEL MEDIUM ACCESS PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS.
2006. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1142571415.
MLA Style (8th edition)
CHOWDHURY, KAUSHIK. "MULTI-CHANNEL MEDIUM ACCESS PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1142571415
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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