太赫兹网络中基于优先级调度的低开销双信道MAC协议

针对现有太赫兹通信网络双信道MAC协议存在控制开销冗余和在竞争信道时缺少优先级调度策略等问题,提出了一种太赫兹网络中基于优先级调度的低开销双信道MAC协议（Low Overhead Dual-channel MAC Protocol Based on Priority Scheduling,LO-PSMAC）,包含通信距离预判、优先级调度策略的CSMA/CA和精简THz频段MAC帧三种机制,可有效提升信道利用率和整体网络吞吐量,同时减小控制开销和降低数据平均时延。仿真结果表明,所提协议与现有太赫兹双信道MAC协议相比,MAC层吞吐量和信道利用率分别提升了7.14%和14.75%,数据平均时延降低了14.21%。     

太赫兹网络中基于中继的高效双信道MAC协议

现有的太赫兹无线个域网双信道介质访问控制(MAC)协议工作在WiFi和太赫兹信道。由于这两种信道的频率相差极大,导致使用全向天线和定向天线的覆盖范围各不相同,这样便会使节点之间的消息传输成功率大大降低,同时也降低了网络整体的吞吐量。另外,在现有的太赫兹无线网络双信道MAC协议中还存在一定的冗余控制开销,这导致了信道利用率低。基于此,文章提出一种太赫兹无线网络中基于中继的高效双信道MAC协议(HE-BRMAC),HE-BRMAC分为中继辅助和自适应减少控制开销机制。通过这两种机制可达到提高消息传输成功率、提升网络整体吞吐量、减少控制开销和提高信道利用率的效果,尤其当节点数较多时,HE-BRMAC的效果更为显著。     

Ad-hoc网络中一种低控制开销的多信道MAC协议

针对Ad-hoc网络中多信道MAC机制引起的控制信道瓶颈问题和隐终端问题,该文提出一种低控制开销MAC协议(LCO-MAC)。与基于信道使用表一类的MAC机制不同,LCO-MAC参考Meshhadany提出的RTS/CTS(Request To Send/Clear To Send)信道分配机制,将数据信道映射为帧中时隙,但不同的是LCO-MAC不限制RTS的发送时间,且一旦申请信道后即可发送数据。仿真结果表明,LCO-MAC无需传输太多的控制信息用于预约信道,有效缓解了控制信道瓶颈问题和多信道隐终端问题,网络吞吐量也得到明显提升。     

太赫兹无线个域网公平高效的MAC层优化机制

针对太赫兹无线个域网双信道媒体访问控制(Medium Access Control, MAC)协议中存在的信道资源分配公平性差、数据帧重传效率低和控制开销较高的问题,提出了一种公平高效的MAC层优化机制。新机制采用基于历史时隙申请信息的信道资源分配策略优化时隙分配公平性,根据信道质量自适应选择数据帧重传机制,控制节点从申请时隙的节点发送的控制帧中的“duration”字段提取时隙申请信息,省略时隙申请帧的发送,从而降低数据帧排队时延和控制开销,提高吞吐量。仿真结果表明,与TAB-MAC和MDP-MAC协议的机制相比,所提机制的数据帧平均排队时延降低了15%,吞吐量提高了5%。     

一种快速传输的太赫兹无线个域网MAC协议

针对现有太赫兹无线个域网MAC协议存在信道利用率低的问题,提出一种快速传输的太赫兹无线个域网MAC(Fast Transmission MAC Protocol for THz Wireless Personal Area Network,FTP-MAC)协议,FTP-MAC协议采用多对节点并行传输机制,在信道互不干扰的情况下实现了多对节点在同一时刻内同时传输的功能,通过OPNET仿真工具进行仿真验证。相较于LODMAC协议和TAB-MAC协议,FTP-MAC协议在吞吐量、信道利用率和网络整体的数据传输效率等性能方面都有所提高。     

一种移动感知的太赫兹无线局域网定向MAC协议

现有太赫兹无线局域网定向MAC(Medium Access Control)协议中,节点移动情况下PNC(PicoNet)发送beacon帧时存在部分控制字段浪费、CTAP(Channel Time Allocation Period)中PNC与DEV(Device)进行波束赋形开销偏大等问题。为此,提出了一种移动感知的太赫兹无线局域网定向MAC(Mobility-aware Directional MAC,MA-MAC)协议。该协议采用基于卡尔曼算法的节点扇区预测机制对移动节点的扇区范围进行迭代预测,采用基于DEV扇区预测的beacon帧内容填充机制对beacon帧中时隙分配字段进行填充,采用基于节点扇区预测的快速波束赋形机制使得PNC与DEV之间波束赋形操作简化。通过仿真验证,与基于IEEE 802.15.3c的太赫兹无线局域网定向MAC协议和现有协议进行对比,MA-MAC协议下网络吞吐量得到了提升,网络平均时延、网络整体控制开销得到了改善。     

一种高效太赫兹无线个域网MAC协议

太赫兹无线通信技术越来越多地受到人们关注,MAC协议作为无线通信的关键,如何适应太赫兹超高速率的无线网络是一个急需解决的问题。文章提出了两种新的机制用于改进现有太赫兹MAC协议存在的不足,最大可能地利用了信道资源,除去了冗余的控制开销,从而提高了无线网络通信的吞吐量。最后通过实际验证结果,对太赫兹无线网络MAC协议的进一步研究提供了支持。     

MIMO Ad Hoc网络中基于正交阵列的拓扑未知多址接入协议

针对支持MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output)的Ad Hoc网络,提出了基于正交阵列的拓扑未知多址接入协议MIMO_O_TTMA(MIMO Supported Orthogonal Array Based Topology Transparent Multiple Access).协议利用正交阵列为节点分配若干时隙,在每个分配时隙中,节点通过与目的节点交互RTS/CTS(Request To Send/Clear To Send)分组来确定发送的数据流数,以机会地利用MIMO的空间复接来提升网络性能.MIMO_O_TTMA在保证节点在一帧内至少有一个时隙能够无干扰地传输的基础上,允许协议的帧长能在一定的范围内进行灵活选择,从而为协议性能的优化提供了更为有利的条件.为评估MIMO_O_TTMA的性能,利用概率方法分析了协议的吞吐量性能,数值结果表明,与已有拓扑未知MAC(Media Access Control)相比,MIMO_O_TTMA有效提升了网络吞吐量.     

基于太赫兹无线网络的高速MAC协议研究与实现

为解决现有无线网络的MAC协议无法匹配太赫兹无线网络物理层(PHY)的问题,提出了一种新的太赫兹无线网络MAC协议,并对该协议加以实现验证。该协议通过新的超帧结构,减少了数据发送的等待时间,加快了端到端数据的传输,从而获得更高的网络端到端吞吐量。通过实现结果表明,在带宽为3.125 Gbps下,采用新协议可以实现均值约2.78 Gbps的端到端吞吐量;同时,在端到端平均时延的性能上也有较大提升。该协议的实现为将来太赫兹无线网络MAC协议的进一步研究提供了有力的支持。     

基于新一代Wi-Fi的MAC层关键技术的仿真与分析

分析了新一代Wi-Fi(即IEEE 802.11ac)的MAC层技术,重点研究了IEEE 802.11ac的分布式协调功能和增强的分布式信道接入技术带来的系统增益,并对IEEE 802.11ac MAC层是否采用帧聚合和块应答机制时的数据吞吐效率、在不同信道接入技术下用户业务的公平性进行了仿真和分析。仿真和分析表明增强的分布式信道接入技术相对于传统的分布式协同功能可以显著提升系统吞吐量,并且MAC层通过采用帧聚合和块应答机制,提升了MAC层相对物理层的吞吐率,降低了MAC层协议固有的系统开销所带来的“短板效应”。     

支持MIMO链路的Ad hoc网络中的链路激活型拓扑未知MAC协议

该文提出了支持多输入多输出(MIMO)链路的Ad hoc网络的链路激活型拓扑未知多址接入协议。该协议利用正交拉丁方来为网络链路分配传输时隙,保证每个链路在1帧中至少有1个时隙可以成功传输。推导了该协议的平均吞吐量,并以最大化平均吞吐量为准则给出了选择协议参数的方法。数值结果表明,与已有链路激活型和节点激活型拓扑未知协议相比,本文的协议可以提高网络节点的吞吐量。     

基于信道状态感知的多信道认知多址接入协议

摘 要：针对多信道认知无线网络中预约信道与多个数据传输信道的状态不一致会降低认知多址协议性能的问题,提出了基于数据信道状态感知的多信道认知多址协议——CAM-MAC协议。该协议在预约信道上优化握手机制来减少平均成功预约时长;而在Nakagami衰落数传信道上采用跨层方法设计了基于瞬时SNR的自适应传输机制来提高数据传输速率。通过上述机制,CAM-MAC协议可以有效提升系统性能。分析与仿真均表明：该协议在饱和吞吐量上有较大提升,在特定场景下可提高约50%。     

MAC Enhancement for High Speed Communications in the 802.15.3c mmWave WPAN

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) is highly focused as a powerful mean enabling to perform very high data transmission. This paper proposes the enhancement of media access control (MAC) for the mmWave WPAN. The existing MACs have limits to achieve high data transmission over 1–2 Gbps by reasons of the low frame transmission efficiency and the high overhead of signal exchanges. In addition, the transmitting frames need to be protected in a poor channel condition for the high quality of service. The proposed MAC provides frame aggregation with unequal error protection (UEP) and block acknowledgment (Blk-ACK), which can solve the problems of the existing MACs and guarantee the high quality of service. Our theoretical throughput analysis shows that the proposed MAC does the high throughput enhancement compared to the existing MACs and achieves the MAC throughput over 2Gbps in the mmWave WPAN.     

多跳Ad Hoc网络中支持MIMO的分布式拓扑未知时分多址接入协议的研究与分析

针对Ad Hoc网络和MIMO的有效结合,提出了适于多跳Ad Hoc网络的支持MIMO的分布式拓扑未知时分多址接入协议.该协议通过有限域无线网络设计算法在每帧给每个节点分配时隙且无需知道全网拓扑信息,这极大地减小了收集全网拓扑信息的开销.通过预约,每个节点在其分配的无干扰时隙并行发送MIMO链路的所有数据流,并在与其他节点共享的时隙发送MIMO链路的一部份数据流来解决传输冲突.同时推导出保证通过率和最佳帧长.结果显示动态分配MIMO的传输容量和抗干扰能力会极大地提高通过率.     

Design of MAC-defined aggregated ARQ schemes for IEEE 802.11n networks

Based on the IEEE 802.11n standard, frame aggregation is considered one of the major factors to improve system performance of wireless local area networks (WLANs) from the medium access control (MAC) perspective. In order to fulfill the requirements of high throughput performance, feasible design of automatic repeat request (ARQ) mechanisms becomes important for providing reliable data transmission. In this paper, two MAC-defined ARQ schemes are proposed to consider the effect of frame aggregation for the enhancement of network throughput. An aggregated selective repeat ARQ (ASR-ARQ) algorithm is proposed, which incorporates the conventional selective repeat ARQ scheme with the consideration of frame aggregation. On the other hand, the aggregated hybrid ARQ (AH-ARQ) protocol is proposed to further enhance throughput performance by adopting the Reed-Solomon block code as the forward error correction (FEC) scheme. Novel analytical models based on the signal flow graph are established in order to realize the retransmission behaviors of both schemes. Simulations are conducted to validate and compare the proposed ARQ mechanisms with existing schemes based on service time distribution. Numerical results show that the proposed AH-ARQ protocol outperforms the other retransmission schemes owing to its effective utilization of FEC mechanism.     

WLAN throughput improvement via distributed queuing MAC

This paper analyzes the performance of a MAC scheme for wireless local area networks (WLANs) that makes use of distributed queues to improve radio channel utilization. Analytical values for the maximum throughput performance are derived as a function of the system parameters. The obtained results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the legacy 802.11 MAC protocol in terms of maximum stable throughput. This benefit is obtained from eliminating back-off periods and collisions in data packet transmissions while minimizing the needed control overhead. The proposal also makes performance to be independent of the number of nodes transmitting in the system and provides stability for high load conditions.     

A Scalable CSMA and Self-Organizing TDMA MAC for IEEE 802.11 p/1609.x in VANETs

vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been a key topic for research community and industry alike. The wireless access in vehicular environment standard employs the IEEE 802.11p/1609.4 for the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer implementation for VANETs. However, the carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) based mechanism cannot provide reliable broadcast services, and the multi-channel operation defined in IEEE 1609.4 divides the available access time into fixed alternating control channel intervals (CCH) and service channel (SCH) intervals, which may lead to the low utilization of the scarce resources. In this paper, a novel multichannel MAC protocol called CS-TDMA considering the channel access scheduling and channel switching concurrently is proposed. The protocol combines CSMA with the time division multiple access (TDMA) to improve the broadcast performance in VANETs. Meanwhile, the dwelling ratio between CCH and SCH changes dynamically according to the traffic density, resulting in the improvement of resource utilization efficiency. Simulation results are presented to verify the effectiveness of our mechanism and comparisons are made with three existing MAC protocols, IEEE MAC, SOFT MAC and VeMAC. The simulation results demonstrate the superiority of CS-TDMA in the reduction of transmission delay and packet collision rate and improvement of network throughput.