Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in

Distributed Sequential Access MAC Protocol for Single-Hop Wireless Networks

  • Published:
Wireless Personal Communications Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Medium access control overhead is the primary reason for low throughput in wireless networks. Performing blind contentions, contentions without any information of other contenders, and exchanging control message are time-consuming control operations. In this study, we propose a new MAC protocol called distributed sequential access MAC (DSA-MAC) which provides the transmission order without any explicit control operations. It may induce very light control overhead; therefore, compared to existing wireless MAC protocols, DSA-MAC can remarkably enhance network throughput.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

References

  1. Pack, S. H., Rutagemwa, H., Shen, X., Mark, J. W., & Cai, L. (2007). Performance analysis of mobile hotspots with heterogeneous wireless links. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 6(10), 3717–3727.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Ali, K. A., & Mouftah, H. T. (2011). Wireless personal area networks architecture and protocols for multimedia applications. Ad Hoc Networks, 9(4), 675–686.

    Google Scholar 

  3. IEEE 802.11 WG: IEEE Standard 802.11-2007. Part11: Wireless LAN medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications.

  4. IEEE 802.15.1 WG: IEEE Standard 802.15.1-2005. Part15.1: Wireless medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications for wireless personal area networks (WPANs).

  5. IEEE 802.15 WG: IEEE Standard 802.15-04/312r0. Applications and usage scenarios for mesh-WPAN.

  6. Teymoori, P. (2012). DT-MAC: An efficient and scalable medium access control protocol for wireless networks. IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, 99, 1–11.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Lee, K., Oh, S. & Kim, C. (2012), A dynamic ID management protocol for CSMA/IC in ad hoc networks. Ad Hoc Networks. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.11.008.

  8. Goldsmith, A. (2005). Wireless communications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  9. Lo, S.-C., Lee, G., & Chen, W.-T. (2003). An efficient multipolling mechanism for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs. IEEE Transactions on Computer, 52(6), 764–778.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA(National IT Industry Promotion Agency) (NIPA-2012-H0301-12-3002).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Networking and Distributed Systems Lab, Room 341, PIRL, POSTECH, Hyoja-Dong, Pohang, 790-784, Korea

    Ki-seok Lee & Cheeha Kim

Authors
  1. Ki-seok Lee
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

  2. Cheeha Kim
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Cheeha Kim.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Lee, Ks., Kim, C. Distributed Sequential Access MAC Protocol for Single-Hop Wireless Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 72, 2177–2184 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1142-8

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1142-8

Keywords