Medium access control in ad hoc network environments employing Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) mechanisms introduces specific challenges like fairness and synchronization.
Illustration of the synchronization mechanism within a synchronization period (st), among nodes r, u and v connected in a chain topology. Nodes wait for a certain amount of time (i.e., t , t_dr, t_du and t_dv, respectively) before transmitting the time remaining until the first time slot (i.e., t_0, t_1 and t_2, respectively) The internal clocks c_u, c_v along with the transmission time t_tx are also depicted.
Throughput as a function of the transmission probability for three different MAC policies.
Jain’s index as a function of transmission probability for the same MAC policies.
Publications
| 2020 | |
| [3] | Georgios Tsoumanis, Asterios Papamichail, Vasileios Dragonas, George Koufoudakis, Constantinos T Angelis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, “Implementation of a Topology Independent MAC (TiMAC) Policy on a Low-Cost IoT System”, In Future Internet, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 86, 2020. |
| [2] | Vasileios Dragonas, Georgios Tsoumanis, George Koufoudakis, Asterios Papamichail, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ioannis Stavrakakis, “A Fairness-Aware topology independent TDMA MAC policy in time constrained wireless ad hoc networks”, In Computer Networks, vol. 171, pp. 107157, 2020. |
| 2019 | |
| [1] | Asterios Papamichail, Vasileios Dragonas, George Koufoudakis, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Georgios Tsoumanis, Ioannis Stavrakakis, “Low-cost Device Implementation of a Topology Independent MAC (TiMAC) Policy”, In Third International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking 2019 (BalkanCom’19), Skopje, North Macedonia, 2019. ([pdf]) |