Wireless Personal Communications, Special issue on Adaptive Global Net, selected papers from the 5th Strategic Workshop, Volume 29, N°1-2, April 2004
Ad hoc and multi-hop networks will probably be part of the fourth generation of wireless networks, which will integrate networks of several size and capacities
with heterogeneous coverage: cellular networks (3G), WLAN hot spots, Wireless
Personal Area Networks (WPAN) and Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). In
this context, MAC protocols play a deciding role for a high utilization of the wireless
channel. In this paper, several issues of the MAC layer and concepts for the definition
of a new MAC protocol are presented. These concepts include synchronization,
multi-user diversity, and multi-packet reception. It is shown that all these techniques
can drastically increase the capacity of the MAC layer for multi-hop networks.
Type:
Journal
Date:
2004-04-01
Department:
Communication systems
Eurecom Ref:
1437
Copyright:
© Springer. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in Wireless Personal Communications, Special issue on Adaptive Global Net, selected papers from the 5th Strategic Workshop, Volume 29, N°1-2, April 2004 and is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:WIRE.0000037571.13880.0f
