The invention belongs to the field of communication and specifically relates to a MAC layer
transmission protocol design method with limited control overhead. The method comprises the steps of initializing to generate a DATA message, sending an RTS (
Request to Send) message, receiving the RTS message, sending a CTS (
Clear to Send) message, receiving the CTS message, sending the DATA message, receiving the DATA message, sending a REQ message, receiving the REQ message, sending an SRQ (Selective
Automatic Repeat Request) message, receiving the SRQ message, sending an ACK (
Acknowledgement) message, receiving the ACK message and so on. By monitoring a
channel reservation request RTS message sent by the next hop node and the REQ message of the next second hop node, the MAC layer
transmission protocol design method with limited control overhead can judge
correctness of the message transmission thereof, and accordingly can adjust and modify path information in time to solve problems of circumvention of invalid
relay nodes and restoration of an interrupted transmission link.
Network congestion, even network
paralysis, caused by invalidity of transmission links, is avoided efficiently without adding any extra control message field within the limited control overhead, robustness of message transmission links is accordingly enhanced, the network lifecycle is prolonged and the MAC layer
transmission protocol design method with limited control overhead is enabled to be more applicable to
wireless sensor networking demands.