Design and evaluation of a new MAC protocol for long-distance 802.11 mesh networks Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:526128, abstract = {802.11 has been used well beyond its original intended use of WLANs. Of particular interest to us in this paper is its use in long-distance mesh networks being designed/used for low- cost rural connectivity. We describe in detail a new MAC protocol, called 2P, that is suited for such networks in terms of eciency. A signicant challenge here is the implemen- tation of this protocol on top of o-the-shelf 802.11 hard- ware, to preserve the cost benets. We show how this can be achieved, by exploiting the exibilities available within Prism2-based chipsets. We then present the dependence of 2P on the network topology, and show that it is indeed pos- sible to design in practice, network topologies compatible with 2P. We describe experimental as well as simulation- based evaluations of 2P, and show that 2P achieves signi- cant performance improvement (as much as 20 times more throughput) over 802.11 CSMA/CA in long-distance mesh networks.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Raman, Bhaskaran and Chebrolu, Kameswari}, booktitle = {MobiCom '05: Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking}, citeulike-article-id = {526128}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1080847}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1080829.1080847}, doi = {10.1145/1080829.1080847}, isbn = {1595930205}, keywords = {2p, 80211, design, distance, long-distance, mac, mac-design, mac-protocol, mesh, mesh-network, mobicom2005, network, protocol, wireless, wireless-mesh, wireless-mesh-network, wireless-network, wmn}, pages = {156--169}, posted-at = {2009-06-24 21:10:46}, priority = {4}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Design and evaluation of a new MAC protocol for long-distance 802.11 mesh networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1080829.1080847}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:526128 L3 - citeulike-article-id:526128 N2 - 802.11 has been used well beyond its original intended use of WLANs. Of particular interest to us in this paper is its use in long-distance mesh networks being designed/used for low- cost rural connectivity. We describe in detail a new MAC protocol, called 2P, that is suited for such networks in terms of eciency. A signicant challenge here is the implemen- tation of this protocol on top of o-the-shelf 802.11 hard- ware, to preserve the cost benets. We show how this can be achieved, by exploiting the exibilities available within Prism2-based chipsets. We then present the dependence of 2P on the network topology, and show that it is indeed pos- sible to design in practice, network topologies compatible with 2P. We describe experimental as well as simulation- based evaluations of 2P, and show that 2P achieves signi- cant performance improvement (as much as 20 times more throughput) over 802.11 CSMA/CA in long-distance mesh networks. SN - 1595930205 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 169 TI - Design and evaluation of a new MAC protocol for long-distance 802.11 mesh networks PB - ACM Press T2 - MobiCom '05: Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking SP - 156 KW - 2p KW - 80211 KW - design KW - distance KW - long-distance KW - mac KW - mac-design KW - mac-protocol KW - mesh KW - mesh-network KW - mobicom2005 KW - network KW - protocol KW - wireless KW - wireless-mesh KW - wireless-mesh-network KW - wireless-network KW - wmn AU - Raman, Bhaskaran AU - Chebrolu, Kameswari PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1080829.1080847 ER -