International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 137 - Number 3 |
Year of Publication: 2016 |
Authors: Poorvi Behre, Pankaj Sahu |
10.5120/ijca2016908673 |
Poorvi Behre, Pankaj Sahu . Customized Medium Access Control (C-MAC) Protocol for Cooperative Wireless Network. International Journal of Computer Applications. 137, 3 ( March 2016), 44-52. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016908673
Cooperation is always required in every filed of communication nowadays because neither a single layer, nor a single protocol is able to perform well in a network. In this work, cooperation has been performed using Medium Access Layer (MAC) using the concept of Rely Node. Although it has been claimed previously that cooperative scheme always promises a higher throughput and lower delay performances still here, a medium access control scheme known as C-MAC (Customize-Medium Access Control) has been proposed, where the neighbours, i.e. the relay node is selected not only assuming higher data rate, but also based on its reliability factor, power constraints, throughput, packet forwarding ratio, delay, which leads to motivate for better decision to deciding whom to co-operate with. The overall system has become reliable with an increased lifetime of the network.