|Publication number||US7734809 B2|
|Application number||US 10/863,453|
|Publication date||Jun 8, 2010|
|Filing date||Jun 7, 2004|
|Priority date||Jun 5, 2003|
|Also published as||US20040258040, WO2004109476A2, WO2004109476A3|
|Publication number||10863453, 863453, US 7734809 B2, US 7734809B2, US-B2-7734809, US7734809 B2, US7734809B2|
|Inventors||Avinash Joshi, Surong Zeng, Guenael T. Strutt|
|Original Assignee||Meshnetworks, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (119), Non-Patent Citations (18), Referenced by (10), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/475,882, filed on Jun. 5, 2003, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a system and method to increase channel utilization in a wireless communication network using a multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol. The messages are sent directly on the reservation channel without any request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) handshake. Each message can further be assigned a special type indicator allowing it to be easily distinguished from the RTS/CTS message.
2. Description of the Related Art
Wireless communications networks, such as mobile wireless telephone networks, have become increasingly prevalent over the past decade. These wireless communications networks are commonly referred to as “cellular networks”, because the network infrastructure is arranged to divide the service area into a plurality of regions called “cells”. A terrestrial cellular network includes a plurality of interconnected base stations, or base nodes, that are distributed geographically at designated locations throughout the service area. Each base node includes one or more transceivers that are capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals, such as radio frequency (RF) communications signals, to and from mobile user nodes, such as wireless telephones, located within the coverage area. The communication signals may include, for example, voice data that has been modulated according to a desired modulation technique and transmitted as data packets. As can be appreciated by one skilled in the art, network nodes transmit and receive data packet communications in a multiplexed format, such as time-division multiple access (TDMA) format, code-division multiple access (CDMA) format, or frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) format, which enables a single transceiver at the base node to communicate simultaneously with several mobile nodes within its coverage area.
In recent years, a type of mobile communications network known as an “ad-hoc” network has been developed for use by the military. In this type of network, each mobile node is capable of operating as a base station or router for the other mobile nodes, thus eliminating the need for a fixed infrastructure of base stations. Details of an ad-hoc network are set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 5,943,322 to Mayor, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
More sophisticated ad-hoc networks are also being developed which, in addition to enabling mobile nodes to communicate with each other as in conventional ad-hoc networks, further enable mobile nodes to access a fixed network and thus communicate with other mobile nodes, such as those on the public switched telephone network (PSTN), and on other networks such as the Internet. Details of these advanced types of ad-hoc networks are described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,072,650 entitled “Ad Hoc Peer-to-Peer Mobile Radio Access System Interfaced to the PSTN and Cellular Networks”, granted on Jul. 4, 2006, in U.S. Pat. No. 6,807,165 entitled “Time Division Protocol for an Ad-Hoc, Peer-to-Peer Radio Network Having Coordinating Channel Access to Shared Parallel Data Channels with Separate Reservation Channel”, granted on Oct. 19, 2004, and in U.S. Pat. No. 6,873,839 entitled “Prioritized-Routing for an Ad-Hoc, Peer-to-Peer, Mobile Radio Access System”, granted on Mar. 29, 2005, the entire content of each being incorporated herein by reference.
Communication between nodes in such networks, however, is often subject to collisions. One collision avoidance technique is carrier sense multiple access protocol (CSMA). In this technique, all nodes are forced to wait for a random number of timeslots and then sense the activity of the medium before starting a transmission. If the medium is sensed to be busy, the node freezes its timer until the medium becomes free again, thereby reducing the possibility of two nodes starting to send messages simultaneously. Therefore, as known to those skilled in the art, the range of the random delay, or the contention window, is set to vary with the load, and ARQ is used to finish the successful transmission process. After sending a packet, the sender waits for the “acknowledgement” (ACK) from the receiver. If ACK is not received within the specified time, the sender assumes that a collision has happened, and a retransmission is needed. In the case of a collision, the random delay range is increased progressively until a successful transmission occurs and the delay range is reset to the minimal value. In this case, the CSMA protocol handles ARQ by repeating the whole request to send/clear to send channel access sequence. Large delays are thus incurred due to retransmissions.
One problem associated with CSMA is that “carrier sense” only can detect the interference around the sender. However, of greater concern is interference at the receiver. In order to solve this problem, Phil Karn presented the Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (MACA) protocol as described in the article entitled “MACA-A New Channel Access Method For Packet Radio”, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference. In MACA, a node requiring to transmit data to a receiver first sends a request-to-send (RTS) packet to the receiver to clear the sender's area. Upon receiving RTS successfully, the receiver responds with a clear-to-send (CTS) packet to clear the receiver's area. The RTS/CTS carries the information, which includes source/destination addresses, transmission duration, and so forth, for the intended transmission. Therefore, all nodes overhearing the RTS/CTS will hold their transmission long enough to avoid collision.
MACA protocol introduced RTS-CTS-DATA process to overcome the problem in CSMA. In order to accelerate the confirmation of the correct message transmission, the link layer ACK is introduced in MACAW proposed in “MACAW: A Media Access Protocol for Wireless LAN's” by V. Bharghavan et al., the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference. One data transmission in MACAW includes RTS-CTS-DATA-ACK exchanges between the sender and the receiver. A variant of MACAW is used in IEEE 802.11 and is known as CSMA/CA. The multichannel MAC design is an extension of MACA/MACAW/CSMA/CA protocols. One channel is reserved for the transmission of control packets such as RTS, CTS, and other channels are used for data packet transmission. The typical process is described below.
In such a process, all nodes in the network keep listening to the reservation channel. Before data packet transmission, RTS/CTS are exchanged between the source and destination via the reservation channel. In RTS/CTS, besides the source/destination addresses and transmission duration information, the information of selected data channel is also carried. Once the exchange of RTS/CTS is successful, both sender and receiver tune to the selected data channel to transmit the data packet and ACK. Upon receiving the ACK, both sender and receiver retune back to the reservation channel to prepare for the future transmission. If a collision happens, the backoff process similar to which is in CSMA will be performed to resolve the collision.
In the multichannel MACA/MACAW and CSMA/CA protocols, the control packet overhead and the tuning delays between reservation channel and data channels are very high which reduces the channel utilization. This problem is more serious when the data packet size is very small. However, in order to coordinate nodes in Ad-Hoc networks, it is very important to distribute node information among neighbor nodes in the form of short Neighbor Advertisement (NA) or short “Hello” message. Accordingly, a need exists for minimizing the transmission overhead for small size packet in the multichannel MACA/MACAW or CSMA/CA protocol.
An object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for reducing delays in data transmissions using carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance or a multiple access with collision avoidance as a medium access control protocol.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for detecting small unicast messages, and where possible, sending such messages directly on the reservation channel between nodes without any request-to-send/clear-to-send handshake.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for detecting small broadcast messages, and where possible, sending such messages directly on the reservation channel between nodes without any request-to-send message.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for assigning a special type indicator to each small message allowing each to be easily distinguished from an RTS/CTS message.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for sending each small message at constant power and data rates so such additional information does not need to be transmitted.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for providing each small message with bits containing information about congestion, activity, device type, mobility level, and so forth.
These and other objects are substantially achieved by a system and method for data transmission using a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance or a multiple access with collision avoidance as a medium access control protocol to detect and send small messages without requiring the receiving node to switch to an indicated data channel. These messages are sent directly on the reservation channel without any request-to-send/clear-to-send handshake, and are assigned a special type indicator allowing each to be easily distinguished from an RTS/CTS message. Each message can be sent at constant power and data rate so such additional information does not need to be transmitted. Each message can also include, but is not limited to, bits containing information about congestion, activity, device type, mobility level, and so forth. Unlike standard practice, this allows creation of a unique MAC message which can be used to send short data messages directly on the reservation channel in a multi-channel MAC and avoid the delays associated with channel switching at both transmitting and receiving nodes.
These and other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will be more readily appreciated from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
In the embodiment of the present invention described below, a data transmission system and method is described in which a MAC protocol is used to detect and send small messages on a reservation channel without requiring the receiving node to switch to an indicated data channel. These messages are sent directly on the reservation channel without any request-to-send/clear-to-send handshake, and associated channel switching delays.
As noted above, in a typical multi-channel wireless communication network using MACA/MACAW or CSMA/CA as MAC protocol, broadcast messages are sent on a data channel. Since all nodes of the network are assumed to constantly listen to the reservation channel, an RTS is sent which informs the neighboring nodes that the next message will be a broadcast message, and will be transmitted after a gap on channel x, where channel x can be any of the available channels in the multi-channel network. Upon receiving this RTS message, all nodes retune to channel x and receive the message. Each node then tunes back to the reservation channel. However, this series of communications results in the following delays. An RTS delay results from the time spent in sending/receiving the initial announcement about the broadcast. A GAP delay results from the time between the RTS and the broadcast message, which overlaps with the returning delay. A Message delay results from the time spent in sending/receiving the broadcast message, and a Return to Reservation Channel delay results from the time required to retune back to the reservation channel.
During the above delays, or “time slices”, no other transmissions can be made, as all the neighbor nodes need to listen to this broadcast packet. Also the nodes run into the risk of losing channel information and can cause hidden node problems which can result in packet collision and ultimately result in poor channel utilization. This process becomes increasingly more inefficient if the message sent on the data channel is comparable to the size of the RTS sent.
Therefore, if the message is small (i.e. comparable to the size of RTS message), the communication process becomes more efficient if the packet is sent on the reservation channel itself rather than the data channel. Such small messages include any number of communications, including a node “hello” or neighbor advertisement. Similarly, small unicast messages can also be sent directly on the reservation channel, thus avoiding RTS/CTS handshake overhead and tuning delays. Such messages can be exchanged in an illustrative network, such as the network 100 of
As can be appreciated by one skilled in the art, the nodes 102, 106 and 107 are capable of communicating with each other directly, or via one or more other nodes 102, 106 or 107 operating as a router or routers for packets being sent between nodes, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,943,322 to Mayor, and in U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,072,650, 6,807,165 and 6,873,839, referenced above. As shown in
Each node 102, 106 and 107 further includes a memory 114, such as a random access memory (RAM), that is capable of storing, among other things, routing information pertaining to itself and other nodes in the network 100. The nodes periodically exchange respective routing information, referred to as routing advertisements or routing table information, via a broadcasting mechanism, for example, when a new node enters the network or when existing nodes in the network move.
As further shown in
In a typical network as shown in
However, to minimize the delays associated with the communication of such messages on the data channel, the embodiment of the present invention determines the size of the message, and where practical to do so, sends the message on the reservation channel. For these “hello” and other small messages, each can be sent on the reservation channel directly without any RTS/CTS handshake. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the message can be assigned a special type or type indicator allowing it to be easily distinguished from an RTS/CTS message. Broadcast messages can furthermore be shortened as they do not require a destination address in addition to the source address. In this example, all hello messages can be treated as broadcast messages.
Each such message sent on the reservation channel can be sent at constant power and data rate levels, thereby eliminating the need to transmit this additional information. Each message can also include, but is not limited to, information about congestion, activity, device type, mobility level and so forth. Additionally, such messages can be helpful in providing smooth handoffs and continuous connectivity as described in U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 20040143842, entitled “System And Method For Achieving Continuous Connectivity To An Access Point Or Gateway In A Wireless Network Following An On-Demand Routing Protocol, and To Perform Smooth Handoff of Mobile Terminals Between Fixed Terminals in the Network”, published on Jul. 22, 2004, the entire content being incorporated herein by reference.
A flow chart representing the operation of the embodiment described above is shown in
In an embodiment of the present invention however shown in
The embodiment described above is highly efficient as nodes need not waste time in returning to different channels. Also, the embodiment mitigates hidden/exposed node problems as it increases the channel awareness among the nodes of the network.
Although only a few exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications are possible in the exemplary embodiments without materially departing from the novel teachings and advantages of this invention. Accordingly, all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this invention.
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