Synchronous full-duplex MAC protocol for multi-hop wireless networks

The co-frequency co-time full-duplex, which refers to the transmission and reception at same time using the same frequency-band, can significantly increase the throughput of wireless networks. For the multi-hop transmission based wireless networks, we develop a novel Synchronous Distributed Full-Duplex medium access control (SD-FD MAC) protocol to efficiently increase the throughput for each end-to-end data flow. Our developed SD-FD MAC protocol offers higher opportunities for data transmissions as compared with the traditional half-duplex MAC protocols. Simulation results verified the throughput increase using our developed SD-FD MAC protocol.