Download or read book Multichannel Medium Access Control Protocol with Cooperative Channel Selection for Ad Hoc Networks written by Jai Mondhe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mobile ad hoc network is a collection of mobile terminals equipped with wireless transceivers that form an autonomous network without any pre-planned infrastructure or centralized administration. Wireless hosts in an ad hoc network typically share a single common channel for communication. The Medium Access Control (MAC) allows the hosts to resolve contention while randomly accessing the channel and plays a key role in determining the efficiency of channel usage in the network. Usage of multiple channels improves the throughput of the MAC protocol in ad hoc networks by allowing multiple nodes to transmit concurrently on different non-overlapping channels. Efficient channel selection schemes can reduce the contention in each channel leading to smaller number of collisions, backoffs, and retransmissions. This research explores a new channel selection scheme that is based on maximizing the signal to interference ratio at the receiver as well as minimizing the interference caused to all other active receivers in the vicinity of the sender. An implementation of this "cooperative" channel selection technique is proposed employing receiver-initiated busy-tones and signal power measurements at the sending and receiving nodes respectively. Simulation based performance results are presented.