TY - GEN
T1 - A distributed packet concatenation scheme for sensor and ad hoc networks
AU - Zhai, Hongqiang
AU - Fang, Yuguang
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PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Along with the growing popularity of sensor and ad hoc networks, various kinds of services are expected to be supported. In wireless ad hoc networks, there are increasing demands for web traffic, voice over IP and streaming video from and to the Internet via the access points. In sensor networks, event-driven or periodically monitoring services are common. However, various lengths of packets are used in different services. Short packets have relatively large overhead at the MAC (medium access control) and physical layers and hence can significantly decrease the network throughput. In this paper, we analyze the performance of a distributed adaptive packet concatenation (APC) scheme which is proposed to improve the network throughput. The APC scheme works at the interface queue of the data link layer. It adaptively concatenates several short packets which are destined to the same next hop into a long packet for MAC layer s transmission according to the congestion status as well as the observed channel status. The theoretical analysis is conducted in both single hop networks and multihop networks, and the result shows that the APC scheme can increase the throughput by up to 4 to 16 times.
AB - Along with the growing popularity of sensor and ad hoc networks, various kinds of services are expected to be supported. In wireless ad hoc networks, there are increasing demands for web traffic, voice over IP and streaming video from and to the Internet via the access points. In sensor networks, event-driven or periodically monitoring services are common. However, various lengths of packets are used in different services. Short packets have relatively large overhead at the MAC (medium access control) and physical layers and hence can significantly decrease the network throughput. In this paper, we analyze the performance of a distributed adaptive packet concatenation (APC) scheme which is proposed to improve the network throughput. The APC scheme works at the interface queue of the data link layer. It adaptively concatenates several short packets which are destined to the same next hop into a long packet for MAC layer s transmission according to the congestion status as well as the observed channel status. The theoretical analysis is conducted in both single hop networks and multihop networks, and the result shows that the APC scheme can increase the throughput by up to 4 to 16 times.
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U2 - 10.1109/MILCOM.2005.1605880
DO - 10.1109/MILCOM.2005.1605880
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 0780393937
SN - 9780780393936
VL - 2005
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM
BT - MILCOM 2005: Military Communications Conference 2005
T2 - MILCOM 2005: Military Communications Conference 2005
Y2 - 17 October 2005 through 20 October 2005
ER -