An Enhanced Relay-Enabled Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

• Main Authors: Ahmad, Rizwan, Zheng, Fu-Chun, Drieberg , Micheal, Olafsson, Sverrir
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4525569; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3650/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

In this paper we propose an enhanced relay-enabled distributed coordination function (rDCF) for wireless ad hoc networks. The idea of rDCF is to use high data rate nodes to work as relays for the low data rate nodes. The relay helps to increase the throughput and lower overall blocking time of nodes...