A Survey on MAC Protocols for Provisioning QOS in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
A. Subramani · 2014
Past few years, research has increased on quality of service (QOS) provisioning in wireless ad hoc networks. They do not require any fixed infrastructure. Nodes are themselves to solve topology changes due to mobility. Such a network needs to support the applications that generate multimedia and real-time traffic. In this regard, we have to provide QOS support for multimedia traffic in Ad hoc wireless networks, and need solutions that not only address the issue of minimizing the end-to-end delay and increase robustness to packet losses but also lower the overhead involved in transmission of high frame rate multimedia traffic. A lot of research has been conducted on MAC protocols and QOS provisioning in wireless ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we discuss the issues and challenges in the same and review some of the MAC QOS solutions are proposed.