Analyzing DISH for Multi-Channel MAC Protocols in Wireless Networks

Abstract

For long, node cooperation has been exploited as a data relaying mechanism. However, the wireless channel allows for much richer interaction between nodes. One such scenario is in a multi-channel environment, where transmitter-receiver pairs may make incorrect decisions (e.g., in selecting channels) but idle neighbors could help by sharing information to prevent undesirable consequences (e.g., data collisions). This represents a Distributed Information SHaring (DISH) mechanism for cooperation and suggests new ways of designing cooperative protocols. However, what is lacking is a theoretical understanding of this new notion of cooperation. In this paper, we view cooperation as a network resource and evaluate the availability of cooperation via a metric, pco, the probability of obtaining cooperation. First, we analytically evaluate pco in the context of multi-channel multi-hop wireless networks. Second, we verify our analysis via simulations and the results show that our analysis accurately characterizes the behavior of pco as a function of underlying network parameters. This step also yields important insights into DISH with respect to network dynamics. Third, we investigate the correlation between pco and network performance in terms of collision rate, packet delay, and throughput. The results indicate a near-linear relationship, which may significantly simplify performance analysis for cooperative networks and suggests that pco be used as an appropriate performance indicator itself. Throughout this work, we utilize, as appropriate, three different DISH contexts -- model-based DISH, ideal DISH, and real DISH -- to explore pco.

Meeting Name

9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, MobiHoc (2008: May 26-30, Hong Kong)

Department(s)

Computer Science

Keywords and Phrases

Cooperative communication; Distributed information sharing

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-160558073-9

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2008 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 May 2008

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