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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
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