MAC Protocols for Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Sensor Networks

MAC Protocols for Cooperative Diversity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Rana Azeem M. Khan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
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Cooperative diversity has emerged as a promising technique to combat fading and improve reliability in a wireless environment. In cooperative diversity protocols, neighboring nodes act as virtual multiple-input-multiple-output (VMIMO) systems, where they cooperate with the transmitter-receiver pair to deliver multiple copies of a packet to the receiver via spatially independent fading channels. These multiple copies of the same packet can be combined at the receiver to recover the original packet. Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols play an important part in realizing this concept by effectively coordinating handshake and transmissions between source, partner and destination nodes. In this thesis, we investigate opportunities for improving reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks using cooperative MAC protocols. First, a Medium Access Control protocol, called CPS-MAC, is proposed. Design challenges such as efficiently waking up neighborhood nodes, minimizing energy overhead, and partner selection are also addressed. Then, Reliable Cooperative Transmission-MAC (RCT-MAC) is proposed which extends the functionality of Cooperative Preamble Sampling-MAC (CPS-MAC) by implementing the Cooperation on Demand concept: nodes cooperate only when needed. Furthermore, RCT-MAC is one of the first attempts to compare the performance of a cooperative Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) MAC protocol against conventional protocols for WSNs namely B-MAC, L-MAC, and IEEE 802.15.4. The reliability vs energy efficiency tradeoff is analyzed for both CPS-MAC and RCT-MAC. Lastly, we evaluate a Packet Error Prediction scheme particularly envisioned for preamble sampling cooperative protocols and meant to supplement traditional partner selection schemes. The correlation between the handshake packets and data packets is analyzed using empirical data. ; eng

Cooperative Wireless Communications

Cooperative Wireless Communications
Author: Yan Zhang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2009-03-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1420064703

Cooperative devices and mechanisms are increasingly important to enhance the performance of wireless communications and networks, with their ability to decrease power consumption and packet loss rate and increase system capacity, computation, and network resilience. Considering the wide range of applications, strategies, and benefits associated wit

Protocol Design and Analysis for Cooperative Wireless Networks

Protocol Design and Analysis for Cooperative Wireless Networks
Author: Wei Song
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319477269

This book focuses on the design and analysis of protocols for cooperative wireless networks, especially at the medium access control (MAC) layer and for crosslayer design between the MAC layer and the physical layer. It highlights two main points that are often neglected in other books: energy-efficiency and spatial random distribution of wireless devices. Effective methods in stochastic geometry for the design and analysis of wireless networks are also explored. After providing a comprehensive review of existing studies in the literature, the authors point out the challenges that are worth further investigation. Then, they introduce several novel solutions for cooperative wireless network protocols that reduce energy consumption and address spatial random distribution of wireless nodes. For each solution, the book offers a clear system model and problem formulation, details of the proposed cooperative schemes, comprehensive performance analysis, and extensive numerical and simulation results that validate the analysis and examine the performance under various conditions. The last section of this book reveals several potential directions for the research on cooperative wireless networks that deserve future exploration. Researchers, professionals, engineers, and consultants in wireless communication and mobile networks will find this book valuable. It is also helpful for technical staff in mobile network operations, wireless equipment manufacturers, wireless communication standardization bodies, and governmental regulation agencies.

Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Suraiya Tarannum
Publisher: IntechOpen
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789533073255

The importance and ubiquity of wireless networks in the modern age justifies the depth and scope of the chapters included in this book, with its special focus on sensors. Topics covered include MAC protocols, with one contribution offering a literature review on them. Energy efficiency is also important, with several chapters addressing cooperative beamforming, modern spatial-diversity techniques and MEMS. Hardware issues are addressed by a batch of chapters, on extending network coverage areas, CMOS RF transceivers, the use of an accelerometer sensor module and a fall-detection monitoring system and a couple of contributions on hierarchical paradigms in wireless sensor networks. More mathematical approaches are also included, with chapters on data aggregation tree construction and distributed localization algorithms.

Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Suraiya Tarannum
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 953307325X

The importance and ubiquity of wireless networks in the modern age justifies the depth and scope of the chapters included in this book, with its special focus on sensors. Topics covered include MAC protocols, with one contribution offering a literature review on them. Energy efficiency is also important, with several chapters addressing cooperative beamforming, modern spatial-diversity techniques and MEMS. Hardware issues are addressed by a batch of chapters, on extending network coverage areas, CMOS RF transceivers, the use of an accelerometer sensor module and a fall-detection monitoring system and a couple of contributions on hierarchical paradigms in wireless sensor networks. More mathematical approaches are also included, with chapters on data aggregation tree construction and distributed localization algorithms.

Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Suraiya Tarannum
Publisher: IntechOpen
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789533073255

The importance and ubiquity of wireless networks in the modern age justifies the depth and scope of the chapters included in this book, with its special focus on sensors. Topics covered include MAC protocols, with one contribution offering a literature review on them. Energy efficiency is also important, with several chapters addressing cooperative beamforming, modern spatial-diversity techniques and MEMS. Hardware issues are addressed by a batch of chapters, on extending network coverage areas, CMOS RF transceivers, the use of an accelerometer sensor module and a fall-detection monitoring system and a couple of contributions on hierarchical paradigms in wireless sensor networks. More mathematical approaches are also included, with chapters on data aggregation tree construction and distributed localization algorithms.

Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Shafiullah Khan
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2012-11-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466506067

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) utilize fast, cheap, and effective applications to imitate the human intelligence capability of sensing on a wider distributed scale. But acquiring data from the deployment area of a WSN is not always easy and multiple issues arise, including the limited resources of sensor devices run with one-time batteries. Additional WSN concerns include the external environment, routing, data aggregation, and ensuring quality of service (QoS) and security. Solutions have been developed for various types of application scenarios, but many problems still remain as open research challenges. Wireless Sensor Networks: Current Status and Future Trends covers the various issues associated with WSNs, including their structure, activities, and applications. Bringing together the contributions of researchers and experts in the field, this book explores: Applications of WSNs, data-centric storage, environmental forest monitoring, and the fundamentals of wireless body area networks Mobile medium access control (MAC) protocols, cooperative diversity sensor systems, and WSNs operating in IEEE 802.11 networks Location and position estimation in WSNs, techniques used in localization algorithms, and localization schemes Energy-centric simulation and design space exploration The fundamentals of MAC protocols and specific requirements and problems Protocols and data gathering Privacy and security issues in WSNs, solutions based on watermarking, and proposed work on intrusion detection systems (IDS) in WSNs Reviewing current trends in research and development as well as future expectations in the relevant areas, this book is a valuable reference for students, graduates, academics, researchers of computer science, and engineers, whether working in professional organizations or research institutions.

Cooperative Multi-channel MAC Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Cooperative Multi-channel MAC Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Author: Yuhan Moon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2010
Genre: Ad hoc networks (Computer networks)
ISBN:

Today, many wireless networks are single-channel systems. However, as the interest in wireless services increases, the contention by nodes to occupy the medium is more intense and interference worsens. One direction with the potential to increase system throughput is multi-channel systems. Multi-channel systems have been shown to reduce collisions and increase concurrency thus producing better bandwidth usage. However, the well-known hidden- and exposed-terminal problems inherited from single-channel systems remain, and a new channel selection problem is introduced. In this dissertation, Multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocols are proposed for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) for nodes equipped with a single half-duplex transceiver, using more sophisticated physical layer technologies. These include code division multiple access (CDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), and diversity. CDMA increases channel reuse, while OFDMA enables communication by multiple users in parallel. There is a challenge to using each technology in MANETs, where there is no fixed infrastructure or centralized control. CDMA suffers from the near-far problem, while OFDMA requires channel synchronization to decode the signal. As a result CDMA and OFDMA are not yet widely used. Cooperative (diversity) mechanisms provide vital information to facilitate communication set-up between source-destination node pairs and help overcome limitations of physical layer technologies in MANETs. In this dissertation, the Cooperative CDMA-based Multi-channel MAC (CCM-MAC) protocol uses CDMA to enable concurrent transmissions on each channel. The Power-controlled CDMA-based Multi-channel MAC (PCC-MAC) protocol uses transmission power control at each node and mitigates collisions of control packets on the control channel by using different sizes of the spreading factor to have different processing gains for the control signals. The Cooperative Dual-access Multi-channel MAC (CDM-MAC) protocol combines the use of OFDMA and CDMA and minimizes channel interference by a resolvable balanced incomplete block design (BIBD). In each protocol, cooperating nodes help reduce the incidence of the multi-channel hidden- and exposed-terminal and help address the near-far problem of CDMA by supplying information. Simulation results show that each of the proposed protocols achieve significantly better system performance when compared to IEEE 802.11, other multi-channel protocols, and another protocol CDMA-based.

Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Shafiullah Khan
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466588853

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) utilize fast, cheap, and effective applications to imitate the human intelligence capability of sensing on a wider distributed scale. But acquiring data from the deployment area of a WSN is not always easy and multiple issues arise, including the limited resources of sensor devices run with one-time batteries. Additi

Cooperative MAC Design for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Cooperative MAC Design for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
Author: Md. Rajibul Islam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
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Cooperative diversity is proposed to combat the detrimental effects of channel fading. In this thesis, we investigate the effectiveness of cooperative diversity in interference limited ad hoc networks. The throughput performance of ad hoc networks that employ cooperative diversity techniques is examined. The negative effects of relay transmission blocking and extra time delay due to using the relay node, on the network throughput are investigated. We show that cooperative diversity based ad hoc networks inherits relay blocking problem which causes net network throughput degradation. To solve the relay blocking problem, we propose a new cooperative medium-access-control (MAC) protocol where each relay is equipped with directive antennas and the transmitter-relay-receiver transmission mode is designed using two frequency channels. Furthermore, we discuss the throughput performance considering single and multiple relay scenarios and analyze the effect of interference on the throughput. Then we investigate the throughput performance of the proposed cooperative MAC protocol in the presence of position estimation errors. In the literature, a perfect position estimation of all nodes is commonly assumed. Here, we focus on the throughput performance of the cooperative network when taking into consideration the effect of directional-of-arrival (DOA) error caused by imperfect global-positioning system (GPS) position estimation. Our results show that using adaptive antennas at the relay becomes advantageous when the DOA error is less than 20 degrees. We noted that increasing the number of antennas (at the relay station) can improve the throughput performance but, on the other hand, the effect of node position error becomes more substantial.