采用TDMA和CSMA混合MAC协议的时隙调整算法

由于车联网(VANET)拓扑动态变化,车辆高速移动以及不同服务质量要求,制定媒体接入控制(MAC)协议面临巨大挑战。在控制信道间隔内采用基于TDMA和CSMA的混合接入协议是最有效的MAC协议之一。基于TDMA和CSMA的混合MAC协议(T-C-MAC)能够依据车辆环境调整TDMA帧长度,并能有效地传输非安全消息。为了提高T-C-MAC协议的性能,提出了一种基于三跳邻居信息的时隙调整(THSA) 算法。通过有效地调整车辆传输时隙,基于THSA的MAC（THSA-MAC）协议能够有效地实施广播服务,提高了安全消息传输率。实验数据表明,THSA-MAC有效地提高了安全消息传递率。     

一种高效低时延的宽带电力线通信网多跳MAC协议

针对IEEE1901.1宽带电力线通信媒体接入控制(Medium Access Control,MAC)协议涉及到信标时隙利用不充分和控制开销过大等问题,提出了一种高效低时延的宽带电力线通信网多跳MAC协议(Efficient and Low Delay Multi-hop MAC,ELDM-MAC).采用基于节点层级号的信标时隙分配机制,根据邻居表和时隙分配信息计算能够提前进入到载波监听多路访问时隙(Carrier Sense Multiple Access,CSMA)的时间,减少了信标时隙的浪费,提高了信道利用率;同时采用基于拓扑信息的信标帧高效广播机制,删除不大于自身层级号的节点和大于且在两跳范围内的非子孙节点的时隙分配信息,降低了网络控制开销.仿真结果表明,ELDM-MAC协议在信道利用率、平均时延和控制开销等方面都优于IEEE1901.1 MAC协议,更适用于宽带电力线通信网络的实际应用场景.     

一种基于多天线的动态TDMA协议仿真研究

提出一种用于Ad Hoc网络MAC层的多天线、多信道动态TDMA协议,它采用一个全向天线和多个方向性的扇区天线.该协议通过空分复用控制,可提高网络的吞吐量,通过基于动态时隙分配算法和相应的邻居发现策略,以减少时隙空闲,提高信道利用率.利用NS-2平台进行的仿真研究表明,与单一全向天线的MAC协议相比,所提出的协议在吞吐量和时延方面有明显的提高.     

一种新的无线传感网络的时隙分配策略

时隙分配是时分多址(TDMA)接入的核心。TMDA将时间划分为若干个固定时隙,使2个干扰的节点在不同时隙内传输数据,进而降低接入碰撞率。为此,提出基于分布式TDMA的时隙分配算法。该算法以Drand算法为基础,对其进行改进。利用路由信息分配时隙,降低通信时延和传输的消息数。仿真结果表明,与Drand算法相比,提出的算法传输时延降低了约8%,传输的消息数约下降了24%。     

一种提供良好QoS保障的Ad Hoc网络MAC协议

为有效减小Ad Hoc网络实时业务节点的信道接入时延,提升对多媒体业务的服务质量(QoS)保障,在研究时隙分配类多址协议的基础上,设计了一种新的基于时隙重构的分组预约协议。新协议时隙结构简单,具有较好的冲突化解能力,通过对空闲数据时隙的重构利用以及层级式的接入控制,取得了较好的时延保障性能。     

基于业务预测的时隙分配算法

多频-时分多址(MF-TDMA)卫星通信系统中信道资源十分宝贵,如何高效地分配和利用卫星通信系统信道资源,研究出一种可以降低卫星通信时延的算法很有必要。提出了一种MF-TDMA卫星通信系统中基于业务预测的时隙分配方法,通过终端缓存区域的队列长度和业务到达率来进行下一时刻的业务预测,中心站根据业务预测值来提前进行下一时刻信道资源的分配。仿真结果表明,通过基于业务预测的时隙分配算法可以有效降低传输时延,提高信道资源的利用率。     

单兵作战系统中信息监听冲突消除技术研究

针对当前单兵作战系统通信网络中所采用的固定分配TDMA算法不能适应大型战场环境和自组织运行需求的问题,提出一种基于消费算法和二叉树时隙分配算法的动态时隙分配TDMA算法,即C-TDMA算法,通过多组载波监听消除接入冲突,在保证延时的基础上使用消费算法控制节点分组发送量,提高信道接入公平性,同时通过二叉树时隙分配算法支持网络分布式运行。仿真结果表明,对于负载较重、传输混合业务且时延敏感的单兵作战系统网络,该算法可以消除接入冲突,提高信道吞吐率。     

低轨卫星接入系统中基于位置信息的时隙分配协议

针对浮标卫星通信系统中卫星覆盖范围广、接入链路传播时延差异大的场景结构引起的统一延迟分配协议中端到端时延长、吞吐率低的问题,提出了一种基于位置信息的时隙分配协议。协议中卫星通过获取浮标位置信息来控制时隙分配的起点,实现时隙离散分配,增大可用传输时隙长度,同时降低传输时延。 OPNET 仿真结果表明所提出的时隙分配协议可以显著提高单信道传输模式下的网络吞吐量,并有效降低单信道与双信道模式下浮标卫星通信系统接入时的端到端时延。     

一种新的有效支持智能天线应用的多址接入协议

本文研究将智能天线应用于分组无线网络中,提出了支持智能天线应用的自适应时隙分配多址接入协议(ASAMA).该协议采用时分双工(TDD)方式,每一帧开始时用户节点依次发送训练序列,基站的智能天线据此计算出各用户节点的空间特征(Spatial Signature).基于波束形成的信干噪比最大化准则,设计了逐点优化与全局优化两种不同复杂度的时隙分配算法.由基站对上下行业务的时隙进行动态分配,在保证通信质量的前提下,使每个时隙容纳多个数据分组,以充分实现信道的空分复用(SDMA).对该协议的信道利用率进行了近似分析,并利用仿真方法考察其性能.结果表明,ASAMA协议能有效支持智能天线应用并具有很高的信道利用率与良好的时延性能.     

基于时间估计的动态频谱接入算法

基于先验知识模型,设计了基于信道剩余空闲时间估计的动态频谱接入算法：每个次用户根据感知历史维护信道剩余空闲时间的估计向量并周期进行更新,每个时隙开始时次用户选择剩余空闲时间估计最大的信道接入。对动态频谱接入算法的适应性问题进行了分析,并求得了次用户的最优传输时间长度。仿真结果表明,在给定的参数下,新算法的信道利用率比其他算法提高约5%-10%,同时对主用户的干扰保持最低。     

Cluster-based multi-channel communications protocols in vehicle ad hoc networks

The dedicated short range communications (DSRC) standard equipped with seven channels is designated for intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications to improve the driving safety and support networking services among moving vehicles. Making best use of the DSRC multichannel architecture, we propose a cluster-based multichannel communications scheme, which integrates the clustering with contention-free/contention-based MAC protocols. In our proposed scheme, the elected cluster-head (CH) vehicle functions as the coordinator (like WLAN's basestation) to collect/deliver the real-time safety messages within its own cluster and forward the consolidated safety messages to the neighboring CHs. Also, the CH vehicle controls channel-assignments for cluster-member vehicles transmitting/receiving the non-real-time traffics, which makes the wireless channels more efficiently utilized for the non-real-time data transmissions. Our scheme uses the contention-free MAC (TDMA/broadcast) within a cluster and the IEEE 802.11 MAC among CH vehicles such that the real-time delivery of safety messages can be guaranteed. The simulation results show that our proposed scheme can significantly improve the throughputs of vehicle data communications while guaranteeing the real-time delivery of safety messages     

FPS‐MAC: Fuzzy priority scheduling‐based MAC protocol for intelligent monitoring systems

Recent advances in microelectronics have encouraged the implementation of a wireless sensor network (WSN) in intelligent monitoring systems (IMSs). The IMS for time‐critical applications requires timely and reliable data delivery without sacrificing the energy efficiency of the network. This paper proposes FPS‐MAC, a fuzzy priority scheduling‐based medium access control protocol, designed for event critical traffic in hierarchical WSN. The FPS‐MAC allows time‐critical event traffic to opportunistically steal the data slots allocated for periodic data traffic in event‐based situations. Additionally, a fuzzy logic‐based slot scheduling mechanism is introduced to provide guaranteed and timely medium access to emergency traffic load and ensures the quality‐of‐service (QoS) requirements of IMSs. Both analytical and simulation results for data throughput, energy consumption, and transmission delay of FPS‐MAC, TLHA, E‐BMA, and BMA‐RR have been analyzed to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed FPS‐MAC protocol.     

RSU-coordinated multichannel MAC protocol in vehicular ad hoc network

A road side unit (RSU)-coordinated multichannel media access control (MAC) (RMM) protocol was proposed in vehicular ad hoc network,which aimed to improve the transmission efficiency of non-safety messages.Under the coordination of RSU,nodes had more opportunities to make SCH reservations on control channel,and the contention-free message transmissions were thus realized.The proposed RMM protocol could use the service channel during the whole synchronization interval for non-safety message transmissions,and thus the saturated network throughput and channel utilization were improved,and the transmission delay was reduced.Compared with other existing protocols,extensive analysis and simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the RMM protocol.     

An efficient TDMA-based variable interval multichannel MAC protocol for vehicular networks

Vehicular Adhoc NETworks (VANETs) are the key to the future of intelligent transportation systems. An efficient MAC protocol is of greater importance to meet the strict deadlines of safety related applications in VANETs. This work introduces a novel TDMA-based variable interval multichannel MAC protocol (TM-MAC) for VANETs. TM-MAC employs TDMA along with variable interval multichannel scheduling for providing a reliable and efficient broadcast service over a lossy wireless medium. TM-MAC reduces transmission collisions thus making Control CHannel (CCH) more reliable and provides high throughput over Service CHannel (SCH) via maximum channel utilization. The scheduling strategy ensures that vehicles are assigned a slot instantaneously. Moreover there is a reduction of almost 50 % in number of vehicles incurring merging collisions when compared with VeMAC (Omar et al. in IEEE Trans Mob Comput 12(9):1724–1736, 2013), an existing and recently proposed TDMA based MAC protocol. This reduction in merging collisions increased the packet delivery ratio by almost 25 % when compared with VeMAC. Extensive simulations which were done over a realistic city scenario connote the superiority of TM-MAC over existing schemes for a wide range of traffic conditions.     

A multi‐channel cooperative clustering‐based MAC protocol for V2V communications

The Internet of vehicles (IoV) is an emerging networking technology, which can support information sharing and interactions among users, vehicles, and infrastructures. Various applications can be provided by IoVs, and they have very different quality‐of‐service (QoS) requirements. It is a great challenge to design an efficient MAC protocol to meet the different QoS demands of various applications in IoVs, because of unreliable links and high vehicle mobility. On the other hand, cooperative communication is effective in mitigating wireless channel impairments by utilizing the broadcast nature of wireless channels. In this paper, a multi‐channel cooperative clustering‐based MAC (MCC‐MAC) protocol, under the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) multi‐channel architecture, is presented to improve the transmission reliability of safety messages and provision QoS for different applications in IoVs. Further, we analyze the performance of MCC‐MAC, in terms of average transmission delay. In addition, extensive simulations with ns‐2 are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed MCC‐MAC. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A mobicast routing protocol with carry‐and‐forward in vehicular ad hoc networks

In vehicular networks, safety and comfort applications are two quite different kinds of applications to avoid the emergency traffic accident and enjoy the non‐emergency entertainment. The comfort application drives the challenges of new non‐emergency entertainments for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). The comfort application usually keeps the delay‐tolerant capability; that is, messages initiated from a specific vehicle at time t can be delivered through VANETs to some vehicles within a given constrained delay time λ. In this paper, we investigate a new mobicast protocol to support comfort applications for a highway scenario in VANETs. All vehicles are located in a geographic zone (denoted as zone of relevance (ZOR)) at time t; the mobicast routing must disseminate the data message initiated from a specific vehicle to all vehicles that have ever appeared in ZOR at time t. This data dissemination must be performed before time t + λ through the carry‐and‐forward technique. In addition, the temporary network fragmentation problem is considered in our protocol design. Also, the low degree of channel utilization is kept to reserve the resource for safety applications. To illustrate the performance achievement, simulation results are examined in terms of message overhead, dissemination success rate, and accumulative packet delivery delay. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Cooperative communication for safety message dissemination in unsaturated networks with varying contention windows

Safety message dissemination is crucial in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) for road safety applications. Vehicles regularly transmit safety messages to surrounding vehicles to prevent road accidents. However, changing vehicle mobility and density can cause unstable network conditions in VANETs, making it inappropriate to use a fixed contention window (CW) for different network densities. It has been proposed a 1-D Markov model under unsaturation conditions to analyze the performance of the system with varying CWs under changing vehicle densities. Additionally, it introduces the use of cooperative communication (CoC) to relay failed safety messages. In CoC, two control packets, namely, negative acknowledge (NACK) and enable to cooperate (ETC), are utilized. The proposed analytical model named cooperative communication for safety message dissemination (CoC-SMD) is used to calculate throughput and average packet delay for varying CW and different packet size. The simulation confirms the validity of the analytical results and show significant improvement in the metrics through the use of varying CW sizes and CoC compared with existing techniques.     

Adaptive digital access protocol: a MAC protocol for multiservicebroadband access networks

The authors describe a protocol that can adapt to the changing demands of a mix of synchronous transfer mode (STM) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) applications and efficiently allocate bandwidth to a variety of bursty traffic sources. In the case of a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network, the protocol resides in customer premises equipment (CPE) and a common head-end/central-office (HE/CO) controller. A medium-access control (MAC) processor provides for dividing the time domain for a given digital bitstream into successive frames, each with multiple STM and ATM time slots. Within the STM region of a frame, variable-length time slots are allocated to calls (e.g., telephony, video telephony) requiring different amounts of bandwidth. In the upstream channels, a contention access signaling time slot is also provided in the STM region for call control and setup requests. Within the ATM region, fixed-length time slots accommodate one individual ATM cell. These ATM time slots may be reserved for a user for either the duration of a call or a burst of successive ATM cells, or shared via a contention process. At least one contention time slot is available for signaling messages related to ATM call control and setup requests. The MAC-layer protocol, its relation to circuit- and ATM-amenable applications, and its performance with respect to throughput, latency, and bandwidth efficiency for several service scenarios are examined     

SEAD: A simple and efficient adaptive data dissemination protocol in vehicular ad-hoc networks

Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is becoming a promising technology for improving the efficiency and the safety of intelligent transportation systems by deploying a wide variety of applications. Smart vehicles are expected to continuously exchange a huge amount of data either through safety or non-safety messages dedicated for road safety or infotainment and passenger comfort applications, respectively. One of the main challenges posed by the study of VANET is the data dissemination design by which messages have to be efficiently disseminated in a high vehicular speed, intermittent connectivity, and highly dynamic topology. In particular, broadcast mechanism should guarantee fast and reliable data delivery within a limited wireless bandwidth in order to fit the real time applications’ requirements. In this work, we propose a simple and efficient adaptive data dissemination protocol called “SEAD”. On the one hand, the originality of this work lies in its simplicity and efficiency regardless the application’s type. Simplicity is achieved through a beaconless strategy adopted to take into account the surrounding vehicles’ density. Thanks to a metric locally measured, each vehicle is able to dynamically define an appropriate probability of rebroadcast to mitigate the broadcast storm problem. Efficiency is manifested by reducing excessive retransmitted messages and hence promoting the network capacity and the transmission delay. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol offers very low packet drop ratio and network load while still maintaining a low end-to-end delay and a high packet delivery. On the other hand, SEAD protocol presents a robust data dissemination mechanism which is suitable either for safety applications or for other kinds of application. This mechanism is able to adapt the protocol performance in terms of packet delivery ratio to the application’s requirements.