Slot conflict resolution in TDMA based Mobile Ad hoc Networks

With collision free transmission at its core, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is becoming increasingly popular for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs). Each node is assigned a conflict free transmission schedule by slot assignment algorithm to avoid collisions in the transmission. As the slot assignment depends hugely on spatial reusing of slots for better bandwidth utilization, slot conflicts occur when nodes with same transmission slots move into each other's vicinity. In our work, we propose a procedure to detect and resolve slot conflicts in MANETs.