The need of high speed communication motivates us to use high bit rate communication
to transmit more information in as little time as possible. However, MAC layer
protocol overheads dominate the transmission capability particularly at high rates
and hinder high speed transmission. Opportunistic transmission has been proposed
to help to overcome this disadvantage by transmitting packets back-to-back without
inter-packet delays. Though this approach alleviates the problem in single-hop wireless
LAN scenario, it doesn’t help in multi-hop networks. This thesis presents an
approach for multi-hop wireless networks, which is named as Multi-hop Transmission
OPportunity (MTOP). It achieves better performance by ensuring better end-to-end
packet transmission by allowing back-to-back packet transmission over multiple hops
rather than that by one node.