An Improved MAC Protocol to Reduce Packet Loss and Energy Wastage in Ad-Hoc Networks

Abstract

An Ad-Hoc network is a wireless, decentralized, dynamic network in which devices associate with each other in their link range, in which the basic 802.11 MAC protocol uses the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) to share the media between various devices. But use of 802.11 MAC protocol in Ad-Hoc networks affected by different issues such as restricted power capacity, packet loss because of transmission error, various control traffic and failure to avoid packet collision. To solve these problems various protocols have been proposed. But we don’t have any perfect protocol which can resolve the issues related to power management, packet collision and packet loss efficiently. In this research paper, we suggest a new protocol to adjust the upper & lower bounds for the contention window to decrease the number of collisions. As well as it proposes a power control scheme, triggered by the MAC layer to reduce the packet loss, energy wastage and decrease the number of collisions during transmission. The proposed MAC protocol is implemented and performance is compared with existing 802.11 MAC protocol. We computed the Packet Delivery Fraction(PDF), average End-to-End(e-e) delay, average throughput and packet loss in several conditions. We find proposed protocol is comparatively improved than the existing protocol.