Prototyping of a new Multi-channel Multi-hop Access Method without RendezVous

Mahamat Habib Senoussi Hissein (1) , Adrien van den Bossche (1, 2) , Thierry Val (1, 2)

1 IRIT-RMESS - Réseaux, Mobiles, Embarqués, Sans fil, Satellites
2 UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

One of the most important issues for wireless LANs is the access and the share of wireless radio medium. Several single-channel MAC protocols have been proposed and address this issue with interesting solutions, but some major problems related to channel access (hidden node, synchronization, propagation of RendezVous...) still persist in a multi-hop transmission context and are still the subject of intensive studies by the scientific community, especially when it is related to extended topologies on distributed Wireless Sensors Networks. This article proposes a new multi-channel MAC for all types of multi-hop wireless network topologies, without RendezVous, its prototyping and performance analysis.

Mots clés: Medium Access Control; Multi-channel medium access; Prototyping; Performance evaluation; Multi-hop without RDV; WiNo; Wireless Sensors Networks

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Système d'exploitation [cs.OS]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Systèmes embarqués

Mahamat Habib Senoussi Hissein, Adrien van den Bossche, Thierry Val. Prototyping of a new Multi-channel Multi-hop Access Method without RendezVous. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, 2017, vol. 15 (n° 1), pp. 68-74. ⟨hal-01739975⟩