IPAC: IP-based Adaptive Packet Concatenation for Multihop Wireless Networks
Raghavendra, R.; Jardosh, A.P.; Belding, E.M.; Haitao Zheng
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2006. ACSSC apos;06. Fortieth Asilomar Conference on
Volume , Issue , Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006 Page(s):2147 - 2153
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/ACSSC.2006.355148
Summary:Because medium contention occurs for each packet that is transmitted in a IEEE 802.11 wireless network, transmission of a large number of small packets can be particularly detrimental to performance. As a result of contention overhead, end-to-end delay and energy dissipation increase and the medium utilization decreases. In this paper, our goal is to reduce contention through concatenation of several small packets into a single large packet, and subsequently transmit this large packet. We propose IPAC, an IP-based packet concatenation protocol that adaptively selects an appropriate packet size based on the route quality. Simulation results show that with IPAC, contention is reduced by a factor of two, resulting in a throughput increase by a factor of two to three.

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