An orthogonal coded hybrid MAC protocol with received power based prioritization for M2M networks

Abstract

Distributed queuing collision avoidance (DQCA) is a hybrid medium access control (MAC) protocol that can inherently accommodate large node densities; however it may not be capable of handling the order of magnitude of devices in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks, which is an order higher than the existing WLANs. To address this issue, we propose a hybrid MAC protocol that uses orthogonal codes for channel contention, coupled with a power based priority assignment scheme for scheduling the data transmissions. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol is well suited for M2M networks and outperforms DQCA.