DFMAC: DTN-Friendly Medium Access Control for Wireless Local Area Networks

Hao Liang; Weihua Zhuang

ChinaCom2009-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

DFMAC: DTN-Friendly Medium Access Control for Wireless Local Area Networks

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    author={Hao Liang and Weihua Zhuang},
    title={DFMAC: DTN-Friendly Medium Access Control for Wireless Local Area Networks},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-FCN},
    year={2009},
    month={11},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339913}
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Hao Liang
Weihua Zhuang
Year: 2009
DFMAC: DTN-Friendly Medium Access Control for Wireless Local Area Networks
CHINACOM2009-FCN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339913

Hao Liang¹^,*, Weihua Zhuang¹^,*

1: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1

*Contact email: h8liang@ecemail.uwaterloo.ca, wzhuang@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a wireless communication network for both low-speed mobile nodes in densely populated hotspots and high-speed mobile nodes roaming in a large area. Wireless local area networks (WLANs) are deployed in the hotspots, while a delay/disruption tolerant network (DTN) provides services to roaming nodes in the large area with low node density. We investigate radio resource allocation for a DTN/WLAN integrated network, and propose a DTN-friendly medium access control (DFMAC) scheme for the hotspots. Analytical models are established to characterize the interactions between a DTN and WLANs under the proposed DFMAC. Numerical and simulation results demonstrate that our proposed MAC scheme can provide an effective and efficient way to balance the radio resource allocation between a DTN and WLANs.

Published: 2009-11-20
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339913