CS6003 ADHOC & SENSOR NETWORKS

CS6003 ADHOC & SENSOR
NETWORKS
UNIT – II
Dr.A.Kathirvel, Professor and Head, Dept of CSE
Anand Institute of Higher Technology, Chennai

Unit - II
MAC PROTOCOLS FOR AD HOC WIRELESS
NETWORKS
Issues in designing a MAC Protocol- Classification of MAC
Protocols- Contention based protocols- Contention based
protocols with Reservation Mechanisms- Contention
based protocols with Scheduling Mechanisms – Multi
channel MAC-IEEE 802.11
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Issues
The main issues need to be addressed while designing a
MAC protocol for ad hoc wireless networks:
Bandwidth efficiency is defined at the ratio of the
bandwidth used for actual data transmission to the total
available bandwidth. The MAC protocol for ad-hoc
networks should maximize it.
Quality of service support is essential for time-
critical applications. The MAC protocol for ad-hoc
networks should consider the constraint of ad-hoc
networks.
Synchronization can be achieved by exchange of
control packets.

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Issues
The main issues need to be addressed while designing a MAC protocol for ad
hoc wireless networks:
Hidden and exposed terminal problems:
Hidden nodes:
Hidden stations: Carrier sensing may fail to detect another station.
For example, A and D.
Fading: The strength of radio signals diminished rapidly with the
distance from the transmitter. For example, A and C.
Exposed nodes:
Exposed stations: B is sending to A. C can detect it. C might want to
send to E but conclude it cannot transmit because C hears B.
Collision masking: The local signal might drown out the remote
transmission.
Error-Prone Shared Broadcast Channel
Distributed Nature/Lack of Central Coordination
Mobility of Nodes: Nodes are mobile most of the time.

A)THE HIDDEN STATION PROBLEM. (B) THE EXPOSED STATION PROBLEM.
Hidden & exposed terminal problem
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The Hidden Terminal Problem
Wireless stations have transmission ranges
and not all stations are within radio range of
each other.
Simple CSMA will not work!
C transmits to B.
If A “senses” the channel, it will not hear
C’s transmission and falsely conclude that A
can begin a transmission to B.

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The Exposed Station Problem
The inverse problem.
B wants to send to C and listens to the
channel.
When B hears A’s transmission, B falsely
assumes that it cannot send to C.

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Wireless LAN configuration
LAN
Server
Wireless
LAN
Laptops
Base station/
access point
Palmtop
radio obstruction
A B C
D
E

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Design goals of a MAC Protocol
Design goals of a MAC protocol for ad hoc wireless
networks
The operation of the protocol should be distributed.
The protocol should provide QoS support for real-
time traffic.
The access delay, which refers to the average delay
experienced by any packet to get transmitted, must be
kept low.
The available bandwidth must be utilized efficiently.
The protocol should ensure fair allocation of
bandwidth to nodes.

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Design goals of a MAC Protocol
Control overhead must be kept as low as possible.
The protocol should minimize the effects of hidden
and exposed terminal problems.
The protocol must be scalable to large networks.
It should have power control mechanisms.
The protocol should have mechanisms for adaptive
data rate control.
It should try to use directional antennas.
The protocol should provide synchronization among
nodes.

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Classifications of MAC protocols
Ad hoc network MAC protocols can be
classified into three types:
Contention-based protocols
Contention-based protocols with reservation
mechanisms
Contention-based protocols with scheduling
mechanisms
Other MAC protocols

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Classifications of MAC protocols
MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc
Wireless Networks
Contention-Based
Protocols
Contention-based
protocols with
reservation mechanisms
Other MAC
Protocols
Contention-based
protocols with
scheduling mechanisms
Sender-Initiated
Protocols
Receiver-Initiated
Protocols
Synchronous
Protocols
Asynchronous
Protocols
Single-Channel
Protocols
Multichannel
Protocols
MACAW
FAMA
BTMA
DBTMA
ICSMA
RI-BTMA
MACA-BI
MARCH
D-PRMA
CATA
HRMA
RI-BTMA
MACA-BI
MARCH
SRMA/PA
FPRP
MACA/PR
RTMAC
Directional
Antennas
MMAC
MCSMA
PCM
RBAR

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Classifications of MAC Protocols
Contention-based protocols
Sender-initiated protocols:
Packet transmissions are initiated by the sender node.
Single-channel sender-initiated protocols: A node that
wins the contention to the channel can make use of the
entire bandwidth.
Multichannel sender-initiated protocols: The available
bandwidth is divided into multiple channels.
Receiver-initiated protocols:
The receiver node initiates the contention resolution
protocol.

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Contention-based protocols with reservation
mechanisms
Synchronous protocols
All nodes need to be synchronized. Global
time synchronization is difficult to achieve.
Asynchronous protocols
These protocols use relative time
information for effecting reservations.

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Contention-based protocols with scheduling mechanisms
Node scheduling is done in a manner so that all nodes
are treated fairly and no node is starved of bandwidth.
Scheduling-based schemes are also used for enforcing
priorities among flows whose packets are queued at
nodes.
Some scheduling schemes also consider battery
characteristics.
Other protocols are those MAC protocols that do not
strictly fall under the above categories.

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Contention-based protocols
MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for
Wireless LANs is based on MACA (Multiple
Access Collision Avoidance) Protocol
MACA
When a node wants to transmit a data packet, it first
transmit a RTS (Request To Send) frame.
The receiver node, on receiving the RTS packet, if it
is ready to receive the data packet, transmits a CTS
(Clear to Send) packet.

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Once the sender receives the CTS packet
without any error, it starts transmitting the data
packet.
If a packet transmitted by a node is lost, the
node uses the binary exponential back-off
(BEB) algorithm to back off a random interval
of time before retrying.
The binary exponential back-off mechanism
used in MACA might starves flows sometimes.
The problem is solved by MACAW.

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MACA Protocol
The MACA protocol. (a) A sending an RTS to B.
(b) B responding with a CTS to A.

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MACA avoids the problem of hidden terminals
A and C want to send to B
A sends RTS first
C waits after receiving CTS from B
MACA examples
A B C
RTS
CTSCTS

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MACA avoids the problem of exposed
terminals
B wants to send to A, C to another terminal
now C does not have to wait for it cannot
receive CTS from A
MACA examples
A B C
RTS
CTS
RTS

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MACAW
Variants of this method can be found in IEEE 802.11
as DFWMAC (Distributed Foundation Wireless
MAC),
MACAW (MACA for Wireless) is a revision of
MACA.
The sender senses the carrier to see and transmits a
RTS (Request To Send) frame if no nearby station
transmits a RTS.
The receiver replies with a CTS (Clear To Send)
frame.

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MACAW
Neighbors
see CTS, then keep quiet.
see RTS but not CTS, then keep quiet until the CTS is back
to the sender.
The receiver sends an ACK when receiving an
frame.
Neighbors keep silent until see ACK.
Collisions
There is no collision detection.
The senders know collision when they don’t receive CTS.
They each wait for the exponential backoff time.

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MACA variant:DFWMAC in 802.11
idle
wait for the
right to send
wait for ACK
sender receiver
packet ready to send; RTS
time-out;
RTS
CTS; data
ACK
RxBusy
idle
wait for
data
RTS; RxBusy
RTS;
CTS
data;
ACK
time-out 
data;
NAK
ACK: positive acknowledgement
NAK: negative acknowledgement
RxBusy: receiver busy
time-out 
NAK;
RTS

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Floor acquisition Multiple Access Protocols
(FAMA)
Based on a channel access discipline which consists
of a carrier-sensing operation and a collision-
avoidance dialog between the sender and the intended
receiver of a packet.
Floor acquisition refers to the process of gaining
control of the channel.
At any time only one node is assigned to use the
channel.

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Carrier-sensing by the sender, followed by the RTS-
CTS control packet exchange, enables the protocol to
perform as efficiently as MACA.
Two variations of FAMA
RTS-CTS exchange with no carrier-sensing uses the
ALOHA protocol for transmitting RTS packets.
RTS-CTS exchange with non-persistent carrier-
sensing uses non-persistent CSMA for the same
purpose.

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Busy Tone Multiple Access Protocols (BTMA)
The transmission channel is split into two:
a data channel for data packet transmissions
a control channel used to transmit the busy tone signal
When a node is ready for transmission, it senses the channel to
check whether the busy tone is active.
If not, it turns on the busy tone signal and starts data
transmissions
Otherwise, it reschedules the packet for transmission after
some random rescheduling delay.
Any other node which senses the carrier on the incoming
data channel also transmits the busy tone signal on the
control channel, thus, prevent two neighboring nodes from
transmitting at the same time.

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Dual Busy Tone Multiple Access Protocol
(DBTMAP) is an extension of the BTMA
scheme.
a control channel used for control packet
transmissions (RTS and CTS packets) and also
for transmitting the busy tones.

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Receiver-Initiated Busy Tone Multiple Access Protocol
(RI-BTMA)
The transmission channel is split into two:
a control channel used for transmitting the busy
tone signal
A node can transmit on the data channel only if it
finds the busy tone to be absent on the control
channel.
The data packet is divided into two portions: a
preamble and the actual data packet.

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MACA-By Invitation (MACA-BI) is a receiver-
initiated MAC protocol.
By eliminating the need for the RTS packet it
reduces the number of control packets used in
the MACA protocol which uses the three-way
handshake mechanism.
Media Access with Reduced Handshake
(MARCH) is a receiver-initiated protocol.

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Contention-based Protocols with
Reservation Mechanisms
Contention-based Protocols with Reservation
Mechanisms
Contention occurs during the resource (bandwidth)
reservation phase.
Once the bandwidth is reserved, the node gets
exclusive access to the reserved bandwidth.
QoS support can be provided for real-time traffic.

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Contention-based Protocols with
Reservation Mechanisms
Distributed packet reservation multiple access protocol
(D-PRMA)
It extends the centralized packet reservation multiple
access (PRMA) scheme into a distributed scheme that
can be used in ad hoc wireless networks.
PRMA was designed in a wireless LAN with a base
station.
D-PRMA extends PRMA protocol in a wireless
LAN.
D-PRMA is a TDMA-based scheme. The channel is
divided into fixed- and equal-sized frames along the
time axis.

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Access method DAMA: Reservation-
TDMA
 Reservation Time Division Multiple Access
every frame consists of N mini-slots and x data-slots
every station has its own mini-slot and can reserve up to k
data-slots using this mini-slot (i.e. x = N * k).
other stations can send data in unused data-slots according to a
round-robin sending scheme (best-effort traffic)
N mini-slots N * k data-slots
reservations
for data-slots
other stations can use free data-slots
based on a round-robin scheme
e.g. N=6, k=2

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Distributed Packet Reservation
Multiple Access Protocol (D-PRMA)
Implicit reservation (PRMA - Packet
Reservation Multiple Access)
frame1
frame2
frame3
frame4
frame5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 time-slot
collision at
reservation
attempts
A C D A B A F
A C A B A
A B A F
A B A F D
A C E E B A F D
t
ACDABA-F
ACDABA-F
AC-ABAF-
A---BAFD
ACEEBAFD
reservation
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Distributed Packet Reservation
Multiple Access Protocol (D-PRMA)
a certain number of slots form a frame, frames are
repeated
stations compete for empty slots according to the
slotted aloha principle
once a station reserves a slot successfully, this slot is
automatically assigned to this station in all following
frames as long as the station has data to send
competition for this slots starts again as soon as the
slot was empty in the last frame
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with Reservation Mechanisms
Collision avoidance time allocation protocol (CATA)
based on dynamic topology-dependent transmission
scheduling
Nodes contend for and reserve time slots by means
of a distributed reservation and handshake
mechanism.
Support broadcast, unicast, and multicast
transmissions.

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The operation is based on two basic principles:
The receiver(s) of a flow must inform the potential source
nodes about the reserved slot on which it is currently
receiving packets. The source node must inform the
potential destination node(s) about interferences in the
slot.
Usage of negative acknowledgements for reservation
requests, and control packet transmissions at the beginning
of each slot, for distributing slot reservation information to
senders of broadcast or multicast sessions.

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Hop reservation multiple access protocol (HRMA)
a multichannel MAC protocol which is based on
half-duplex, very slow frequency-hopping spread
spectrum (FHSS) radios
uses a reservation and handshake mechanism to
enable a pair of communicating nodes to reserve a
frequency hop, thereby guaranteeing collision-free
data transmission.
can be viewed as a time slot reservation protocol
where each time slot is assigned a separate frequency
channel.

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Soft reservation multiple access with priority
assignment (SRMA/PA)
Developed with the main objective of
supporting integrated services of real-time and
non-real-time application in ad hoc networks,
at the same time maximizing the statistical
multiplexing gain.
Nodes use a collision-avoidance handshake
mechanism and a soft reservation mechanism.

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Five-Phase Reservation Protocol (FPRP)
a single-channel time division multiple access
(TDMA)-based broadcast scheduling protocol.
Nodes uses a contention mechanism in order to
acquire time slots.
The protocol assumes the availability of global time
at all nodes.
The reservation takes five phases: reservation,
collision report, reservation confirmation, reservation
acknowledgement, and packing and elimination
phase.

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MACA with Piggy-Backed Reservation (MACA/PR)
Provide real-time traffic support in multi-hop
wireless networks
Based on the MACAW protocol with non-persistent
CSMA
The main components of MACA/PR are:
A MAC protocol
A reservation protocol
A QoS routing protocol

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Real-Time Medium Access Control Protocol (RTMAC)
Provides a bandwidth reservation mechanism for
supporting real-time traffic in ad hoc wireless networks
RTMAC has two components
A MAC layer protocol is a real-time extension of the
IEEE 802.11 DCF.
A medium-access protocol for best-effort traffic
A reservation protocol for real-time traffic
A QoS routing protocol is responsible for end-to-end
reservation and release of bandwidth resources.

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Protocols in this category focus on packet
scheduling at the nodes and transmission
scheduling of the nodes.
The factors that affects scheduling decisions
Delay targets of packets
Traffic load at nodes
Battery power
with Scheduling Mechanisms

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Distributed priority scheduling and medium
access in Ad Hoc Networks present two
mechanisms for providing quality of service
(QoS)
Distributed priority scheduling (DPS) – piggy-backs
the priority tag of a node’s current and head-of-line
packets o the control and data packets
Multi-hop coordination – extends the DPS scheme to
carry out scheduling over multi-hop paths.

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Distributed Wireless Ordering Protocol (DWOP)
A media access scheme along with a scheduling
mechanism
Based on the distributed priority scheduling scheme

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Distributed Laxity-based Priority Scheduling (DLPS)
Scheme
Scheduling decisions are made based on
The states of neighboring nodes and feed back from
destination nodes regarding packet losses
Packets are recorded based on their uniform laxity
budgets (ULBs) and the packet delivery ratios of the
flows. The laxity of a packet is the time remaining
before its deadline.

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MAC protocols that use directional antennas have
several advantages:
Reduce signal interference
Increase in the system throughput
Improved channel reuse
MAC protocol using directional antennas
Make use of an RTS/CTS exchange mechanism
Use directional antennas for transmitting and
receiving data packets
MAC Protocols that use directional
Antennas

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Directional Busy Tone-based MAC Protocol (DBTMA)
It uses directional antennas for transmitting the RTS,
CTS, data frames, and the busy tones.
Directional MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc Wireless
Networks
DMAC-1, a directional antenna is used for
transmitting RTS packets and omni-directional antenna
for CTS packets.
DMAC-1, both directional RTS and omni-directional
RTS transmission are used.
MAC Protocols that use directional
Antennas

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Other MAC Protocols
Multi-channel MAC Protocol (MMAC)
Multiple channels for data transmission
There is no dedicated control channel.
Based on channel usage channels can be classified into three types: high
preference channel (HIGH), medium preference channel (MID), low
preference channel (LOW)
Multi-channel CSMA MAC Protocol (MCSMA)
The available bandwidth is divided into several channels
Power Control MAC Protocol (PCM) for Ad Hoc Networks
Allows nodes to vary their transmission power levels on a per-packet basis
Receiver-based Autorate Protocol (RBAR)
Use a rate adaptation approach
Interleaved Carrier-Sense Multiple Access Protocol (ICSMA)
The available bandwidth is split into tow equal channels
The handshaking process is interleaved between the two channels.

What is IEEE 802.11?
Standard for wireless local area networks (wireless
LANs) developed in 1990 by IEEE
Intended for home or office use (primarily indoor)
802.11 standard describes the MAC layer, while
other substandards (802.11a, 802.11b) describe the
physical layer
Wireless version of the Ethernet (802.3) standard
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Network Setup
Ethernet
MT
AP AP AP
MT MT
Basic Network Setup is Cellular
Mobile Terminals (MT) connect with Access Points (AP)
Standard also supports ad-hoc networking where MT’s talk directly to MT’s
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IEEE 802.11 Physical Layers
802.11b 802.11a
Modulation Scheme DSSS OFDM
Spectrum (GHz) 2.4 – 2.485 5.15-5.35, 5.725-5.825
Data Rate (Mbps) 1 – 11 6 - 54
Subchannels 11 overlapping 8 independent
Interference Microwave, Cordless
Phones,Bluetooth,
HomeRF, Light Bulbs!
HyperLAN II
Availability Today Late August?
Cost $250 AP, $100 PC Card ??? (same)
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Media Access Control - Ethernet
 CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Detection)
If media is sensed idle, transmit
If media is sensed busy, wait until idle and then transmit
immediately
 Collisions can occur if more than one user transmits at the same
time
If a collision is detected, stop transmitting.
Reschedule transmission according to exponential backoff
Desktop System Desktop System Desktop System
Ethernet
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Media Access Control (802.11)
Would like to use CSMA
Nice for bursty traffic
Make for seamless replacement of wired LANs with
wireless LANS
Use CSMA, but can’t use CD
PT/PR ratio is too high
Don’t want to waste energy on mobiles
Use Collision Avoidance instead
Don’t always start transmitting immediately after
someone else
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CSMA/CA Details
SIFS (Short Interframe Space)
DIFS (Distributed Interframe Space)
Packet A ACK
B C
SIFS DIFS
Packet C ACK
SIFS DIFS
Packet B
Scenario:
B and C want to transmit, but A currently has control of medium
B randomly selects 7 slots of backoff, C selects 4 slots
C transmits first, then B
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What is HIPERLAN/2?
European standard developed by ETSI/BRAN
(European Telecommunications Standards
Institute/Broadband Radio Access Networks)
Physical Layer is very similar to 802.11a
(OFDM operating in the 5 GHz spectrum)
Standard based on wireless ATM
(Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
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HIPERLAN/2 MAC
BCH – Miscellaneous header
FCH – Details how the DL and UL phases will be allocated
ACH – Feedback on which resource requests were received
RCH – Random access resource request
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IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11 is a widely accepted standard in the United
States for wireless LANs
Primarily a “cellular” random access scheme with
provisions for ad hoc networking and contention free
access
802.11b products are available now, but better to wait
for 802.11a products later this year
HIPERLAN/2 is being pushed in Europe
Wireless ATM solution for real-time traffic
Standard reflects the network topology
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