Distributed Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

by Associate Professor Ping Wang and Weihua Zhuang

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for Distributed Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

This brief investigates distributed medium access control (MAC) with QoS provisioning for both single- and multi-hop wireless networks including wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless ad hoc networks, and wireless mesh networks.

For WLANs, an efficient MAC scheme and a call admission control algorithm are presented to provide guaranteed QoS for voice traffic and, at the same time, increase the voice capacity significantly compared with the current WLAN standard. In addition, a novel token-based scheduling scheme is proposed to provide great flexibility and facility to the network service provider for service class management.

Also proposed is a novel busy-tone based distributed MAC scheme for wireless ad hoc networks and a collision-free MAC scheme for wireless mesh networks, respectively, taking the different network characteristics into consideration. The proposed schemes enhance the QoS provisioning capability to real-time traffic and, at the same time, significantly improve the system throughput and fairness performance for data traffic, as compared with the most popular IEEE 802.11 MAC scheme.

  • ISBN10 1461466032
  • ISBN13 9781461466031
  • Publish Date 30 April 2013 (first published 23 March 2013)
  • Publish Status Withdrawn
  • Out of Print 18 October 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Springer
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 124
  • Language English