Medium Access Control and Quality-of-Service Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Chenxi Zhu · University Libraries (University of Maryland) · 2001
A mobile ad hoc network is an autonomous system consisting solely of mobile terminals connected with wireless links. This type of network has received considerable interest in recent years due to its capability to be deployed quickly without any fixed infrastructure. Nodes self-organize and re-configure as they join, move, or leave the network. How to design distributed protocols capable of handling the dynamic nature of these networks is an interesting but difficult topic. When TDMA is used, distributed protocols are needed to generate transmission schedules. An important issue is how to produce a schedule quickly. This is critical when the network is large or the network changes frequently. Here we develop two fully distributed protocols for generating or updating TDMA schedules. Contention is incorporated into the scheduling protocols for themto work independently of the network size. The schedule can be generated at multiple parts of the network simultaneously. In the