DCMA: A Label Switching MAC for Efficient Packet Forwarding in Multihop Wireless Networks

A Review of Multihop Based Medium Access Control (Mac) Protocol to Tackle Both Multiple Access and Multihop Issues in Wireless Mesh Network (Wmn)

“…To reduce the latency and improve the throughput in multihop networks, the Data-driven Cut through Medium Access protocol (DCMA) has been proposed [8]. The feature of this protocol is to reserve the channel for the next forwarding node by using new control frames called ACK/RTS as shown in Figure 7.…”

“…These are the drawbacks of the DCMA protocol. The other refinement of DCMA protocol can be found in [8]. Additionally, [13] showed the improvement of [8] by designing the cut-through ACK/RTS control frames.…”

“…The other refinement of DCMA protocol can be found in [8]. Additionally, [13] showed the improvement of [8] by designing the cut-through ACK/RTS control frames. This protocol was designed with simpler hardware structure where it doesn't need the quick operation at the NIC as what DCMA needed.…”

Improved network resilience of wireless mesh networks using MPLS and Fast Re-Routing techniques

“…In [23,24] the authors use MPLS to perform fast packet forwarding directly at layer 2, without involving the overhead of per-packet route lookup operations. Both solutions allow the forwarding of packets in a pipelined fashion with a cut-through channel access, which also leads to better results in terms of latency.…”

UNCLE: A unified unicast and multicast label forwarding architecture in MANETs

“…Various labeling architectures have been proposed for efficient packet forwarding in MANETs. [2][3][12][13][14][15][16] The labeled forwarding offers solutions to this rapid growth and large networks by allowing a large number of IP addresses to be associated with a shorter label. Compared to IP routing, label forwarding is much faster because the label value placed in an incoming packet header is used to access the forwarding table at the intermediate nodes.…”