TY - GEN
T1 - Exploiting peer-to-peer state exchange for distributed medium access control
AU - Hui, Ka Hung
AU - Tianyi Li, Li
AU - Guo, Dongning
AU - Berry, Randall A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols are proposed for wireless networks assuming that one-hop peers can exchange a small amount of state information periodically. Each station maintains a state and makes state transitions and transmission decisions based on its state and recent state information collected from its one-hop peers. A station can adapt its packet length and the size of its state space to the amount of traffic in its neighborhood. It is shown that these protocols converge to a steady state, where stations take turns to transmit in each neighborhood without collision. An important consequence of this work is that using such protocols, an efficient time-division multiple access (TDMA) like schedule can be formed in a distributed manner, as long as the topology of the network remains static or changes slowly with respect to the execution of the protocol.
AB - Distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols are proposed for wireless networks assuming that one-hop peers can exchange a small amount of state information periodically. Each station maintains a state and makes state transitions and transmission decisions based on its state and recent state information collected from its one-hop peers. A station can adapt its packet length and the size of its state space to the amount of traffic in its neighborhood. It is shown that these protocols converge to a steady state, where stations take turns to transmit in each neighborhood without collision. An important consequence of this work is that using such protocols, an efficient time-division multiple access (TDMA) like schedule can be formed in a distributed manner, as long as the topology of the network remains static or changes slowly with respect to the execution of the protocol.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISIT.2011.6033987
DO - 10.1109/ISIT.2011.6033987
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80054820062
SN - 9781457705953
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
SP - 2368
EP - 2372
BT - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, ISIT 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, ISIT 2011
Y2 - 31 July 2011 through 5 August 2011
ER -