Supervisory Load Control for Throughput Improvement of Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks

Hong-Seok CHOI
Hee-Jung BYUN
Jong-Tae LIM

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.9    pp.2625-2628
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.9.2625
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
MAC,  DCF,  ad hoc,  load control,  throughput,  

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Summary: 
IEEE 802.11 MAC is the most commonly used MAC layer protocol in multi-hop ad hoc networks. When the network load becomes heavy, the throughput performance of IEEE 802.11 MAC is decreased because of the high collision rates and the low spatial reuse of the channel. In this letter, we analyze the throughput of multi-hop ad hoc networks and propose a supervisory control framework to maximize the throughput.