A distributed pseudo TDMA protocol for Multi-Transmit-Receive Wireless Mesh Networks

Authors

Yuanhuizi Xu, University of WollongongFollow
Kwan-Wu Chin, University of WollongongFollow
Sieteng Soh, Curtin University of Technology, Curtin UniversityFollow

RIS ID

115511

Publication Details

Y. Xu, K. Chin & S. Soh, "A distributed pseudo TDMA protocol for Multi-Transmit-Receive Wireless Mesh Networks," in 19th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2016, pp. 2-7.

Additional Publication Information

ISBN: 9784904020098

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel, iterative, distributed Medium Access Control (MAC) for Multi-Transmit-Receive (MTR) Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). The MAC called PCP-TDMA aims to construct the shortest possible schedule that allows nodes to transmit to or receive from all their neighbors simultaneously over the same frequency. Compared to the state-of-the-art, namely a centralized algorithm called ALGO-2, and two distributed approaches, namely JazzyMAC and ROMA, the results show that PCP-TDMA achieves similar performance to ALGO-2, and outperforms JazzyMAC and ROMA significantly. Specifically, in a fully connected network, the superframe produced by PCP-TDMA is respectively only 1/3 and 1/2 the length of that generated by JazzyMAC and ROMA.