Dynamic Channel Adaptive MAC with Frame Length Prediction (DCAM/FLP)

Medium Access Protocol (MAC) for wireless networks plays a very crucial role in the network performance. Wireless links have a smaller bandwidth compared to wire-line links, they are also more susceptible to interference than wire-line links. In this paper, we propose a MAC protocol for cellular networks. We assume two different types of traffic (real-time audio and regular computer traffic) each with its own different QoS requirement. It also assumes that the link is error prone and alternate between periods of good and bad states. We used simulation to compare our protocol with existing protocols and we have shown a much better performance especially for real-time audio transmissions.