A Fair Cooperative MAC Protocol in IEEE 802.11 WLAN

Seyed Davoud Mousavi, Rasool Sadeghi, Mohamadreza Karimi, Erfan Karimian and Mohammad Reza Soltan Aghaei
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Seyed Davoud Mousavi: Department of Computer, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan 81595-158, Iran
Rasool Sadeghi: Department of Electrical Engineering, Dolatabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan 83418-57185, Iran
Mohamadreza Karimi: Department of Computer Engineering, Dolatabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan 83418-57185, Iran
Erfan Karimian: Department of Computer Engineering, Dolatabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan 83418-57185, Iran
Mohammad Reza Soltan Aghaei: Department of Computer, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan 81595-158, Iran

Future Internet, 2018, vol. 10, issue 5, 1-10

Abstract: Cooperative communication techniques have recently enabled wireless technologies to overcome their challenges. The main objective of these techniques is to improve resource allocation. In this paper, we propose a new protocol in medium access control (MAC) of the IEEE 802.11 standard. In our new protocol, which is called Fair Cooperative MAC (FC-MAC), every relay node participates in cooperation proportionally to its provided cooperation gain. This technique improves network resource allocation by exploiting the potential capacity of all relay candidates. Simulation results demonstrate that the FC-MAC protocol presents better performance in terms of throughput, fairness, and network lifetime.

Keywords: cooperation; relay selection; fairness; lifetime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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