Energy efficient MAC protocol with spatial reusability for wireless ad hoc networks

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 13-26

  Gossain, Hrishikesh ^a   Cordeiro, Carlos de M ^b   Agrawal, Dharma P ^c  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; dominating transmission; energy saving; MAC; power control; sneaking transmission; spatial reuse; wireless ad hoc networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969452346     PISSN: 17438225     EISSN: 17438233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijahuc.2005.008016     Document Type: Article

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18. The idea of detecting the type of a control packet based on the duration of the signal on the medium has also been suggested in Li et al. (2001) for the sole purpose of setting the NAV, while power control and spatial reusability have not been considered. Nevertheless, it is shown in Li et al. (2001) that a node in the C-Zone can determine, with high probability, the type of the transmitted packet based either on the physical layer header or the total time a signal is sensed in the wireless medium. This serves the further validate our claim.
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