• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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An Energy Efficient Multichannel MAC Protocol for QoS Provisioning in MANETs

Vol. 5, No. 4, April 28, 2011
10.3837/tiis.2011.04.004, Download Paper (Free):

Abstract

This paper proposes a TDMA-based multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol for QoS provisioning in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) that enables nodes to transmit their packets in distributed channels. The IEEE 802.11 standard supports multichannel operation at the physical (PHY) layer but its MAC protocol is designed only for a single channel. The single channel MAC protocol does not work well in multichannel environment because of the multichannel hidden terminal problem. Our proposed protocol enables nodes to utilize multiple channels by switching channels dynamically, thus increasing network throughput. Although each node of this protocol is equipped with only a single transceiver but it solves the multichannel hidden terminal problem using temporal synchronization. The proposed energy efficient multichannel MAC (EM-MAC) protocol takes the advantage of both multiple channels and TDMA, and achieves aggressive power savings by allowing nodes that are not involved in communications to go into power saving “sleep mode”. We consider the problem of providing QoS guarantee to nodes as well as to maintain the most efficient use of scarce bandwidth resources. Our scheme improves network throughput and lifetime significantly, especially when the network is highly congested. The simulation results show that our proposed scheme successfully exploits multiple channels and significantly improves network performance by providing QoS guarantee in MANETs.


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[IEEE Style]
S. M. Kamruzzaman and M. A. Hamid, "An Energy Efficient Multichannel MAC Protocol for QoS Provisioning in MANETs," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 684-702, 2011. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2011.04.004.

[ACM Style]
S. M. Kamruzzaman and Md. Abdul Hamid. 2011. An Energy Efficient Multichannel MAC Protocol for QoS Provisioning in MANETs. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 5, 4, (2011), 684-702. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2011.04.004.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:19953, title="An Energy Efficient Multichannel MAC Protocol for QoS Provisioning in MANETs", author="S. M. Kamruzzaman and Md. Abdul Hamid and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2011.04.004}, volume={5}, number={4}, year="2011", month={April}, pages={684-702}}