@inproceedings{ae17d2a2799d4fc0b32e5dabf487309c,
title = "High throughput interweave cooperative wireless MAC protocol for congested environment",
abstract = "CSMA/CA wireless MAC protocol is adopted in many standards. However, its performance at high contention level is less than desirable due to prolonged backoff period and collisions. We propose a novel cooperative MAC based on the Interweave Cognitive framework to combat high contention. In our setup, we incorporate a subset of self-organizing advanced nodes that opportunistically switch to a contention-free MAC protocol to ease network congestion in a cognitive and cooperative manner. Consequently, the whole network benefits from a higher and more stable throughput even at high contention level. Our theoretical and simulation results demonstrate that IC-MAC is effective in reducing the number of backlogged nodes and improving the throughput of up to 20% relative to CSMA/CA MAC.",
keywords = "Congested network, Cooperative, CSMA/CA, High contention, MAC, TDMA, Wireless network",
author = "Mar, {Choong Hock} and Kong, {Peng Yong} and Tham, {Chen Khong}",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1109/WCNC.2010.5506212",
language = "British English",
isbn = "9781424463985",
series = "IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC",
booktitle = "2010 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2010 - Proceedings",
note = "IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2010, WCNC 2010 ; Conference date: 18-04-2010 Through 21-04-2010",
}