Self-organizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Spontaneous Clustering at the MAC Layer

J. Alonso-Zárate; E. Kartsakli; P. Chatzimisios; L. Alonso; Ch. Verikoukis

Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. First International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2009, Athens, Greece, May 18-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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Self-organizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Spontaneous Clustering at the MAC Layer

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_23,
    author={J. Alonso-Z\^{a}rate and E. Kartsakli and P. Chatzimisios and L. Alonso and Ch. Verikoukis},
    title={Self-organizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Spontaneous Clustering at the MAC Layer},
    proceedings={Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. First International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2009, Athens, Greece, May 18-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={MOBILIGHT},
    year={2012},
    month={6},
    keywords={MAC DQMAN DQCA Clustering Ad hoc Self-organizing},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_23}
}

J. Alonso-Zárate
E. Kartsakli
P. Chatzimisios
L. Alonso
Ch. Verikoukis
Year: 2012
Self-organizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Spontaneous Clustering at the MAC Layer
MOBILIGHT
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_23

J. Alonso-Zárate¹^,*, E. Kartsakli²^,*, P. Chatzimisios³^,*, L. Alonso²^,*, Ch. Verikoukis¹^,*

1: Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Av. del Canal Olímpic s/n, CTTC
2: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (EPSC-UPC), Av. del Canal Olímpic s/n, EPSC
3: University of Macedonia

*Contact email: jesus.alonso@cttc.es, ellik@tsc.upc.edu, pchatzim@uom.gr, luisg@tsc.upc.edu, cveri@cttc.es

Abstract

We present in this paper a master-slave, self-organized, spontaneous, passive, and dynamic clustering algorithm embedded into the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer for Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Any mobile station gets access to the channel by executing a contention-based mechanism similar to the IEEE 802.11 Standard. However, once it seizes the channel, it establishes a temporary cluster to which closer neighbors can get synchronized. Within each cluster, any infrastructure-based MAC protocol can be executed. Link-level computer simulations have been carried out to show that this approach can remarkably improve the performance of ad hoc networks at the MAC layer.

Keywords: MAC DQMAN DQCA Clustering Ad hoc Self-organizing

Published: 2012-06-01

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_23