Research on wide area ad hoc networks is of great significance due to its application prospect in long-range networks such as aeronautical and maritime networks,etc.The design of MAC protocols is one of the most impor...Research on wide area ad hoc networks is of great significance due to its application prospect in long-range networks such as aeronautical and maritime networks,etc.The design of MAC protocols is one of the most important parts impacting the whole network performance.In this paper,we propose a dis-tributed TDMA-based MAC protocol called Dynamic Self Organizing TDMA(DSO-TDMA)for wide area ad hoc networks.DSO-TDMA includes three main features:(1)In a distributed way,nodes in the network select transmitting slots according to the congestion situation of the local air interface.(2)In a selforganization way,nodes dynamically adjust the resource occupancy ratio according to the queue length of neighbouring nodes within two-hop range.(3)In a piggyback way,the control information is transmitted together with the payload to reduce the overhead.We design the whole mechanisms,implement them in NS-3 and evaluate the performance of DSO-TDMA compared with another dynamic TDMA MAC protocol,EHR-TDMA.Results show that the end-to-end throughput of DSO-TDMA is at most 51.4%higher than that of EHR-TDMA,and the average access delay of DSO-TDMA is at most 66.05%lower than that of EHR-TDMA.展开更多
文摘Research on wide area ad hoc networks is of great significance due to its application prospect in long-range networks such as aeronautical and maritime networks,etc.The design of MAC protocols is one of the most important parts impacting the whole network performance.In this paper,we propose a dis-tributed TDMA-based MAC protocol called Dynamic Self Organizing TDMA(DSO-TDMA)for wide area ad hoc networks.DSO-TDMA includes three main features:(1)In a distributed way,nodes in the network select transmitting slots according to the congestion situation of the local air interface.(2)In a selforganization way,nodes dynamically adjust the resource occupancy ratio according to the queue length of neighbouring nodes within two-hop range.(3)In a piggyback way,the control information is transmitted together with the payload to reduce the overhead.We design the whole mechanisms,implement them in NS-3 and evaluate the performance of DSO-TDMA compared with another dynamic TDMA MAC protocol,EHR-TDMA.Results show that the end-to-end throughput of DSO-TDMA is at most 51.4%higher than that of EHR-TDMA,and the average access delay of DSO-TDMA is at most 66.05%lower than that of EHR-TDMA.
