Multi-channel mac for ad hoc networks: handling multi-channel hidden terminals using a single transceiver
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...A clear understanding of the relationship between network capacity and the above factors provides a guideline for protocol development, architecture design, deployment and operation of the network....
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...To coordinate transmissions between network nodes under this situation, protocols such as the multi-channel MAC in [4] are needed....
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...…shows that with intelligent channel and bandwidth assignment, equipping every wireless mesh network node with just 2 NICs operating on different channels can increase the total network goodput by a factor of up to 8 compared with the conventional single-channel ad hoc network architecture....
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...This whole process is called Virtual Carrier Sensing, which allows the area around the sender and receiver to be reserved for communication, thus avoiding the hidden terminal problem [ 10 ]....
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...In this section, we describe a new type of hidden terminal problem [ 10 ] pertaining to multi-channel environment, which we call the multi-channel hidden terminal problem....
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...11 single channel MAC, the curves labeled as “DCA” indicate the DCA protocol from [8], and the curves labeled as “MMAC” indicate our proposed scheme....
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...The protocol is similar to [8], except it assumes each node has one transceiver....
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...[9] propose a protocol that uses a scheme similar to [8] that has one control channel and N data channels, but selects the best channel according to the channel condition at the receiver side....
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...11, and the Dynamic Channel Assignment (DCA) protocol [8] (DCA was explained in section II)....
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...The proposed scheme requires only one transceiver for each host, while other multi-channel MAC protocols require multiple transceivers for each host [11, 9, 8]....
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...The proposed scheme requires only one transceiver for each host, while other multi-channel MAC protocols require multiple transceivers for each host [11, 9, 8]....
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...Unlike our scheme, many other multi-channel MAC protocols require each host to have multiple transceivers [11, 9, 8]....
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