MaCC: Supporting Network Formation and Routing in Wireless Personal Area Networks

This paper presents a novel effective scheme of configuring Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), called Master-driven Connection Control (MaCC). WPANs are based on a new wireless technology, which enables portable and mobile computing devices, and consumer electronic appliances to communicate with each other. Assuming that WPANs operate in a master-slave style, we exploit the information about master-slave relationships for identifying a network topology. Specifically, MaCC provides the minimum-hop paths that cannot be obtained by flooding algorithms. MaCC has several prominent features: selfdirection of every node, adaptive formation of networks, and minimization of hop counts for routing control. In this paper, we describe the details of MaCC and analyze its overhead under initialization, routing discovery, and reconfiguration. The results show control messages propagated in a MaCC network at route discovery are reduced to less than one half those in a network utilizing pure flo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Makoto Takizawa, Hiroto Aida, Masato Saito, Yoshito Tobe, Hideyuki Tokuda
• Keywords: AINA 2004, Computer Networks, MaCC, MaCC Network, Master-driven Connection Control