Journal on Communications ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 9-18.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2015169

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Local congestion control algorithm with fair channel allocation

Geng-ming ZHU1,Zhi-qiang WANG1,Zhe-tao LI2,3(),Ren-fa LI4   

  1. 1 School of Computer Science & Engineering,Hunan University of Science and Technology,Xiangtan 411201,China
    2 College of Information Engineering,Xiangtan University,Xiangtan 411105,China
    3 School of Computer,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
    4 School of Information Science & Engineering,Hunan University,Changsha 410082,China
  • Online:2015-04-25 Published:2015-04-15
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province;Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province;The Construct Program of the Key Discipline in Hunan Province

Abstract:

A local congestion control algorithm with fair channel allocation (FCA) was presented to mitigate local congestion as well as to improve the fairness of channel utilization.In order to decrease the extra communication overhead for obtaining the real-time buffer length of neighbors and improve the accuracy of congestion detection model based on buffer occupancy of single node,FCA presented a new model considers the total buffer length of neighbors with predict-based mechanism for real-time buffer occupancy and the average transmission time of packet.To avoid deteriorating congestion with an explicit notified package,FCA embedded an additional node address to the ACK control frame to carry congestion information.During the congestion alleviation stage,FCA presented a fair channel allocation mechanism based on real-time buffer occupancy and queue priority to prevent some nodes from overflowing resulting in package loss due to the growth of buffer fast.Simulation results show that the proposed protocol has comparative advantages compare with 802.11,CODA and PCCP in terms of collision,package delivery ratio,throughput and fairness.

Key words: wireless sensor network, congestion control, MAC protocol, fairness

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