Abstract-Cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocols have been proposed for improving communication reliability and throughput in wireless networks. In our previous work, a cooperative MAC scheme called Cooperative ADHOC MAC (CAH-MAC) has been proposed to increase the network throughput under a static networking scenario for vehicular communications. In this paper, we study the effects of relative mobility among nodes and channel fading on the performance of CAH-MAC. In a dynamic networking environment, system performance degrades due to cooperation collisions. To tackle this challenge, we present an enhanced CAH-MAC (eCAH-MAC) scheme, which avoids cooperation collisions and efficiently utilizes cooperation opportunities without disrupting the time-slot reservation operations. Through mathematical analysis and computer simulations, we show that eCAH-MAC increases the effectiveness of node cooperation by increasing utilization of an unreserved time slot. Furthermore, we perform extensive simulations for realistic networking scenarios to investigate the probability of successful cooperative relay transmission and usage of unreserved time slots in eCAH-MAC, in comparison with existing approaches.
To increase the reliability and throughput of the vehicular network, REF proposed a cooperative medium access protocol that improves the slot utilization of vehicles.
Link-Layer Cooperation Based on Distributed TDMA MAC for Vehicular Networks
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Computer Science