Abstract
This paper presents ABROAD, an adaptive medium access control (MAC) protocol for reliable broadcast packet transmission in wireless networks. ABROAD incorporates a collision-avoidance handshake within each slot of a synchronous transmission schedule, allowing nodes to reclaim and/or reuse idle slots while maintaining bounded access delay. Thus, ABROAD provides worst-case performance guarantees while remaining adaptive to local changes in traffic load and node connectivity. We analyze the optimal worst-case performance of ABROAD, and show that there is a strict increase in the number of broadcast packets per second over a pure time division multiple access (TDMA) protocol. Extensive simulation confirms our analysis, and also demonstrates that ABROAD outperforms broadcast protocols based on reliable unicast packet delivery schemes, such as the IEEE 802.11 MAC standard.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE International Conference on Communications |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ, United States |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 1692-1696 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Volume | 3 |
| State | Published - 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2000 IEEE International Conference on Communications - New Orleans, LA, USA Duration: Jun 18 2000 → Jun 22 2000 |
Other
| Other | 2000 IEEE International Conference on Communications |
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| City | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| Period | 6/18/00 → 6/22/00 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering