Multi-cast Optimized Medium Access Method for Wireless Network

摘要

Collisions in wireless networks may be avoided by stacking acknowledge messages, relaying the stacked acknowledge messages, and reducing the number of acknowledge frames transmitted as a result of successful stacked acknowledge message transmissions. Additionally, a blind relay setup may be implemented to increase successful transmission rates such that a relay node in a transmission chain is configured to relay a frame without addressing the relay to a specific node. Non-neighboring nodes may receive frames out of order and relay the frames despite the out of order delivery.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a first relay node, a first acknowledge frame comprising a first acknowledge message in a transmission chain, the transmission chain comprising one or more relay nodes; determining a sequence based on a node value assigned to the first relay node; and transmitting, according to the sequence, a second acknowledge frame from the first relay node, the second acknowledge frame comprising the first acknowledge message and a second acknowledge message.