Cooperation-Based Adaptive and Reliable MAC Design for Multichannel Directional Wireless IoT Networks

Internet of Things (IoT) is the ultimate enabler of modern civilization. Cooperative communication in multichannel directional wireless networks is one of the cutting-edge IoT research themes. Typically, cooperation in wireless networks is the opportunistic relaying of data packets for neighboring nodes by idle nodes. Current IoT-based researches related to multichannel with directional antenna introduce the control channel cooperation. But, the iterative phenomenon of negotiation in control channel results in higher communication delay. Hence, to reduce the data transmission delay, cooperation in data relaying need to be used along with control channel cooperation. In this paper, we propose a Cooperation-based Adaptive and Reliable MAC (CAR MAC) Design for Multichannel Directional Wireless IoT Networks that combines both of these cooperation and multichannel directional concepts of cooperation. Multichannel directional hidden terminal problems and deafness problems in medium access are solved using both concepts of cooperation jointly. Besides, multidirectional data packet relaying in the same data channel enables parallel transmission that increases the bandwidth utilization. Moreover, the proposed protocol uses a smart GPS (Global Positioning System) based neighbor discovery. Therefore, the directional position and distance among the IoT-enabled wireless nodes are smartly determined to make the control channel cooperation more informative. The results of extensive simulations reveal that CAR MAC achieves significant improvement in network performances.