%0 Journal Article
%T Collision Detection and the Design of Fair and Stable MAC Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
%A Yongkang Xiao
%A Rong Xiao
%A Bo Sun
%J Communications and Network
%P 355-360
%@ 1947-3826
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/cn.2013.53B2065
%X Fairness and stability guarantee among TCP flows is very stubborn in wireless ad hoc networks. There is not a MAC protocol that can fulfill this acquirement until now. In this paper, we firstly reveal the in-depth causes of the severe TCP unfairness and instability problems in IEEE 802.11-based multihop networks. Then we utilize the collision detection mechanism of the IEEE 802.11 protocol which is often ignored by most of the people to design a novel collision detection mechanism-based MAC (CDMB-MAC) scheme to solve the short-term and long-term fairness and stability issues while providing a good aggregate throughput in many topologies.
%K Ad hoc Networks
%K IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol
%K TCP
%K Fair
%K Stable
%K Collision Detection Mechanism
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=39408