Multiple access and time division: a new look
Yalin E. Sagduyu, Anthony Ephremides · 2004
We rediscover the value of scheduled access through a detailed foray into the questions of throughput and energy consumption for MAC protocols in ad hoc wireless networks, where the optimal channel access scheduling is NP-complete. We propose a two-layered time-division heuristic of receiver activation and Group TDMA as polynomial-time solutions to throughput and energy-efficient link scheduling and resource allocation in networks with dynamically changing transmitter-receiver pairs.