Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks

by Wu, Hongyi; Pan, Yi

• ISBN13: 9781600219443
• ISBN10: 1600219446
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-09
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

Wireless technologies and applications are becoming one of the fastest growing and most promising areas in recent years. To accommodate data transmission by multiple stations sharing the scarce wireless bandwidth, a medium access control (MAC) protocol plays a crucial role in scheduling packet transmission fairly and efficiently. The emerging wireless networks, such as ad-hoc networks, sensor networks or mesh networks, are mostly multi-hop based and in distributed manner, which brings a lot of problems and challenges in designing fine-tuned MAC protocols tailored for modern wireless network. In this book, the authors give complete and in-depth overviews to the classic medium access control algorithms and the related protocols, as well as their applications in various wireless data networks especially the most successful Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). The book consists of three major parts. Part I of this book, including Chapters 1-7, is emphasising on the fundamentals of medium access control algorithms and protocols. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the wireless networks, such as overview of wireless networks, problems and challenges of the wireless networks, and the classifications of MAC protocols as well as the performance metrics. Chapter 2 introduces important collision resolution algorithms applied in medium access controls, for example, the splitting algorithm and the backoff algorithm. Chapter 3 reviews the hybrid access control algorithms that combine both contention and allocation schemes. A series of important collision avoidance schemes are introduced in Chapters 4-7 respectively, with a specific design goal covered in each chapter. Chapter 4 focuses on the multi-channel MAC protocols for collision avoidance; Chapter 5 introduces the concepts of power control and power management in medium access control and how they can be applied in MAC protocol design; Chapter 6 presents how to provide Quality-of- Service (QoS) to multimedia wireless networks, in either centralised or distributed manner; and Chapter 7 explains how the smart antennas can be applied in the medium access control to provide high channel throughput and low packet collision.

Table of Contents

Medium Access Control: Fundamentals and Algorithms	p. 1
Introduction to Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks	p. 3
Contention-Based Collision-Resolution Medium Access Control Algorithms	p. 15
Hybrid Medium Access Control Protocols for Multihop Wireless Networks	p. 97
Multichannel Medium Access Control Protocols	p. 117
Power Control and Management in MAC Protocols for MANETs	p. 127
QoS-Aware Medium Access Control Protocols	p. 155
Medium Access Control for Wireless Networks using Smart Antenna	p. 177
Medium Access Control in Wireless Local Area Networks	p. 207
Overview of Medium Access Control in Wireless Local Area Networks	p. 209
IEEE 802.11 Standards	p. 235
Access Point Selection Strategies in Wireless Local Area Networks	p. 255
Fast Handoff Mechanisms for IEEE 802.11 Networks	p. 277
Multi-rate Adaptation
Introduction to Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control Protocols	p. 335
Performance Analysis of MAC Protocols for WLAN with Heterogeneous Traffic	p. 383
Analysis and Configuration of IEEE 802.11e	p. 407
Performance Analysis of Contention-Based Prioritization Mechanisms in IEEE 802.11e MAC	p. 427
Performance Analysis and Enhancement of an MAC Scheme for Wireless Local Area Networks	p. 449
Medium Access Control in Multihop Wireless Networks	p. 469
Medium Access Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks	p. 471
Medium Access Control in Wireless Mesh Networks	p. 515
Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks	p. 535
Medium Access Control Protocols in Hybrid Multi-hop Wireless Networks	p. 561
Resource Management for mmWave based WPANs with Directional Antenna	p. 595
Providing Multimedia Services and Medium Access Control in the OFDMA Broadband Wireless Communications	p. 613
Index	p. 631
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