Wireless networks are designed to tackle homogeneous intra/inter network interference by means of various medium access techniques.
Wavelet OFDM is one of the medium access techniques adopted by the IEEE P1901 working group for broadband power line communications (PLC).
Most existing medium access control techniques for wireless networks are designed to work well under low traffic rates.
The original IEEE 802.11, intended for wireless local area networking (WLAN), has two well-known drawbacks within its medium access control (MAC) technique carrier sense multiple access (CSMA): it can cause unbounded delays before channel access as well as collisions on the channel.
This protocol works on the medium access determinism granted by the bandjacking technique in open environments, where different technologies may contend for the medium.
Specifying a cooperative MAC protocol that integrates helper selection, packet piggyback and medium access for the application of cooperative communication technique to the MAC layer.
We adopt a time division multiple access air interface and we propose an original solution where a medium access protocol and a usage parameter control technique jointly define the radio resource management.
The contributions of this paper are as follows: Specifying a cooperative MAC protocol that integrates helper selection, packet piggyback and medium access for the application of cooperative communication technique to the MAC layer.
However, the radio spectrum resource will remain limited, and thus, efficient radio resource utilization techniques, such as advanced medium access control (MAC) schemes, will be of paramount importance.
The basic techniques applied for energy efficient networks are: (a) energy efficient protocols for routing, medium access, hand-off and (b) Adaptive Link Rate (ALR) techniques that scale link rate and utilize sleep states for energy-proportional computing [55].
