Abstract
An analytical model to evaluate the non-saturated performance of the Distributed Queuing Medium Access Control Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks (DQMANs) in single-hop networks is presented in this paper. DQMAN is comprised of a spontaneous, temporary, and dynamic clustering mechanism integrated with a near-optimum distributed queuing Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. Clustering is executed in a distributed manner using a mechanism inspired by the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) of the IEEE 802.11. Once a station seizes the channel, it becomes the temporary clusterhead of a spontaneous cluster and it coordinates the peer-to-peer communications between the clustermembers. Within each cluster, a near-optimum distributed queuing MAC protocol is executed. The theoretical performance analysis of DQMAN in single-hop networks under non-saturation conditions is presented in this paper. The approach integrates the analysis of the clustering mechanism into the MAC layer model. Up to the knowledge of the authors, this approach is novel in the literature. In addition, the performance of an ad hoc network using DQMAN is compared to that obtained when using the DCF of the IEEE 802.11, as a benchmark reference.
Highlights
The IEEE 802.11 Standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) defines both the physical (PHY) and the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer specifications [1]
In order to compute the value of (2), we present a theoretical model of DQMAN to obtain the value of the following: (1) the probabilities PS, PI, and PC, which depend on the clustering mechanism, (2) E[TS], which depends on the operation of the protocol within each cluster
DQMAN has been presented in the literature as a highperformance MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks
Summary
The IEEE 802.11 Standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) defines both the physical (PHY) and the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer specifications [1]. As data transmission rates grow, the MAC protocol overhead is becoming a bottleneck for the performance of generation wireless networks [2] For this reason, it is necessary to develop new protocols with reduced overhead that can attain higher performance. Saturation conditions only represent partially the performance of a practical network, which will not be working at the saturation point continuously This is the motivation for this paper, where we present a novel theoretical model of DQMAN to evaluate its performance in non-saturation conditions for single-hop networks. With this model we derive the non-saturation throughput, the average transmission delay, and the average time that each node operates in the different modes of operation in a DQMAN network.
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