Characterization of the adverse effect of neighborhood capture in MANET and on the way to a remedy
Kazi Atiqur Rahman, Kazi Aminur Rahman, Matthias Lott, Kemal Ertugrul Tepe · 2009
The current era of mobile communication is passing through the days of rapidly changing technologies. A technology which holds promise to bring surprise to the future users is ad hoc networks. The multiple access procedure in ad hoc networks is not error prone till now, although significant researches are going on in its MAC layer. The communications in ad hoc networks are adversely affected by the neighborhood capture problem along with some other problems like hidden station problem, exposed station problem as well as channel capture problem. This paper will characterize the adverse effect of neighborhood capture problem with two views of a remedy and some analytical results.