Design and performance comparison of multiple-token based MAC protocols for optical burst switched ring networks

Optical burst switching (OBS) has been proposed as a new optical switching paradigm for the next generation Internet due to its flexibility and feasibility compared to OCS and OPS. Moreover, serving as a backbone that interconnects a number of access networks, OBS ring topologies have been a good choice for solving the current metro gap problem between core network and access network owning to its simplicity and scalability. In this paper, we provide an insight into the OBS ring network that consists of nodes using TT–TR (Tunable Transmitter–Tunable Receiver). The node architectures with TT–TR may make efficient use of network resources even though traffic pattern, such as IP traffic with self-similarity dynamically change, and can support good expandability. However, all nodes share the limited network resources. This may result in contention such as wavelength contention and transceiver contention leading to burst loss. In order to use the shared network resources fairly and efficiently as well as reducing the resource contention, we focus on the design of medium access control (MAC) protocols based on multiple tokens. Each token is allocated to one wavelength to denote the accessibility of that wavelength, i.e., once the token is captured, the corresponding wavelength can be used to transmit a burst. As tokens hold the key for using wavelengths to transmit bursts, token management including the token release time is crucial in the proposed MAC protocols. Thus, two kinds of multiple-token based MAC protocols with different token release times are proposed: token release after transmitting burst (TRTB) and token release after transmitting control header (TRTC). Each of them is classified into two schemes called TRTB/TRR and TRTB/RCA and correspondingly TRTC/TRR and TRTC/ RCA. RCA stands for receive collision avoidance. The target is to increase the performance while reducing the processing overhead at each node. The performance of the TRTB and TRTC protocols are evaluated and compared in terms of queuing delay, burst loss rate, and channel utilization by OPNET simulation. The effects of various design parameters are also investigated through simulation in order to evaluate their scalability. In all the proposed schemes, tokens are just used to denote the accessibility of each wavelength. Finally, as an alternative, we also propose a new scheme based on the TRTC protocol called TRTC/CAT (collision avoidance by tokens) to avoid contention by using tokens.

一种基于ARM和FPGA的可重构MAC协议设计

为了在实际信道条件下研究AdHoc网络MAC协议,克服商业网卡芯片和理论仿真等带来的局限性,搭建了基于ARM和FPGA相结合的硬件平台,设计与实现了基于CSMA／cA的可重构MAC协议,并进行了仿真测试,验证了该协议设计的正确性。对AdHoc网络MAC协议的实用化提供有益的参考。     

采用定向天线Ad Hoc网络MAC协议关键问题研究

介绍基于定向天线的MAC协议,阐述使用定向天线所面临的隐藏终端、暴露终端以及聋节点问题。重点分析定向天线的MAC协议造成隐藏终端和暴露终端的原因以及解决这些问题的相应策略,在此基础上提出了新的改进CSMA协议。通过仿真表明,改进CSMA协议能提高基于定向天线Ad Hoc网络的整体性能。     

APON接人系统的一个介质访问控制协议

作为共享介质的接入网络,APON需要介质访问控制协议用于协调各终端对介质的存取.本文提出了一个符合ITU-T建议的MAC协议,采用了时延分优先级,对高优先级的实时业务按照的均匀间隔的原则分配带宽,低优先级业务的带宽按次序循环分配.上行帧长度根据处于连接的用户数动态变化,各终端的带宽申请时隙由系统动态分配.最后给出了由该协议确定的网络性能的计算机仿真结果.     

OCR-MAC：一种新的基于CSMA的无线传感器网络MAC协议

传感器网络被认为是21世纪最重要的技术之一,它将对人类未来的生活产生深远影响,其中MAC协议是WSN通信协议中最为突出也是最为重要的关键协议之一。无线传感器网络具有节点的电源能量和硬件资源受限的特点,因此设计高能效的MAC协议是MAC协议研究中具有挑战性的研究课题。基于以上目的,本文采用了CSMA机制和分簇路由协议的优点,改进了传统的MAC协议提出了OCR-MAC协议,并利用MATLAB进行了仿真,仿真结果表明,改进后的OCR-MAC协议在节能和网络数据传输方面性能更加优越。     

无线自组网竞争类MAC协议分析及研究

无线自组织网络是一种无基础设施的移动网络,并且每个节点的业务多以突发业务为主,因此信道资源分配适用于采用竞争方式。本文在对无线自组网各种典型竞争类MAC协议进行分析及探讨的基础上,采用Opnet仿真建模环境,创建出各协议的状态分析模型,并在此基础上对各协议的性能优劣进行了比较总结。论文对无线自组网各协议仿真建模研究及选择高效适用的MAC技术方案具有实际参考价值。     

Performance evaluation of CSMA/ID MAC protocol for IP over WDM ring networks

In this paper, a packet pre‐classification media access control protocol based on a carrier sense multiple access with idle detection (CSMA/ID) scheme is investigated for supporting IP packets over all‐optical WDM ring networks. The purpose of the protocol is to increase throughput and to decrease the packet transmission delay of IP packets over optical networks in a metropolitan area network. This protocol avoids both packet collision and packet fragmentation. In order to improve the utilization of the network, the packets transmitted from a local area network are first pre‐classified into various class queues of an access point (AP) according to their length. After checking the available space based on the wavelength received by the receivers of the AP, the packets in the queues are transmitted. An analytical model is developed to evaluate the performance of the protocol, with simulation results showing good network efficiency. The proposed network has short‐term variations that introduce unfairness conditions. This problem could be overcome by assigning a quota on individual queues to allow all queues fair access. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

QoS for wireless sensor networks: Enabling service differentiation at the MAC sub-layer using CoSenS

Providing service differentiation in wireless sensor networks while proposing simple and highly scalable solution is a challenging problem. We retain the use of CSMA/CA as access protocol because of its simplicity, versatility and good scalability properties. We developed CoSenS, a Collect then Send burst Scheme, on top of it to address its weaknesses while facilitating the implementation of scheduling policies. In this article, we propose a simple and scalable service differentiation solution; we implement fixed priority and earliest deadline first on top of CoSenS. The simulation analysis shows that our solution self-adapts to the traffic variation and greatly enhances end-to-end delay, reliability and deadline meet ratio for urgent traffic while not degrading best effort traffic compared to IEEE 802.15.4 original protocol and IEEE 802.15.4 implementing these scheduling policies. Additionally, CoSenS is implemented and tested on motes. The real experimentation results validated our simulation analysis.     

Hopping control channel MAC protocol for opportunistic spectrum access networks

Opportunistic spectrum access （OSA） is considered as a promising approach to mitigate spectrum scarcity by allowing unlicensed users to exploit spectrum opportunities in licensed frequency bands. Derived from the existing channel-hopping multiple access （CHMA） protocol,we introduce a hopping control channel medium access control （MAC） protocol in the context of OSA networks. In our proposed protocol,all nodes in the network follow a common channel-hopping sequence; every frequency channel can be used as control channel and data channel. Considering primary users＇ occupancy of the channel,we use a primary user （PU） detection model to calculate the channel availability for unlicensed users＇ access. Then,a discrete Markov chain analytical model is applied to describe the channel states and deduce the system throughput. Through simulation,we present numerical results to demonstrate the throughput performance of our protocol and thus validate our work.     

The CSMA/DM LAN protocol

We propose an extension of the classical CSMA/CD protocol that eliminates its three main drawbacks. The new protocol, called dual‐mode CSMA/CD (CSMA/DM), operates in two modes, light mode and heavy mode. The light mode of CSMA/DM is almost the same as the original CSMA/CD protocol and is primarily used when the LAN load is light. The heavy mode is a collision free mode and is applied when the LAN load is heavy. The proposed modification to CSMA/CD is minimal while performance gain is significant. CSMA/DM automatically switches between its two modes based on the observed LAN load. Under heavy mode, the monitor station in a CSMA/DM LAN allocates bandwidth to those busy stations without collisions. The newly added priority scheme in the heavy mode allows stations to reserve bandwidth for their high priority frames. Compared with the current collision‐free fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, CSMA/DM has the advantage of not needing any extra switches or hubs while maintaining comparable performance. Its priority scheme provides more flexibility on bandwidth distribution than in fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet. It can also be easily adapted for high‐speed wireless LANs. More importantly, CSMA/DM should be a good alternative of the widely used CSMA/CA (collision avoidance) in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and sensor networks. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一种改进的宽带卫星网络MAC协议

为了提高宽带卫星网络上行信道资源的利用率,同时保障多媒体业务的不同服务质量要求,需要采用合适的媒体接入控制协议。BTDAMA可以显著减少自相似业务的等待时延,并且提高了资源利用率。但它没有区分业务类型,不能保证高优先级业务的服务质量,也造成了一定程度上资源的浪费。在BTDAMA的基础上提出了一种基于业务优先级的带宽分配算法,针对不同的业务类型采用不同的分配方案,不仅保证了各类业务的服务质量,同时提高了资源利用率。     

基于FPGA无线传感器网络MAC控制器的设计

给出了一种由FPGA实现的无线传感器网络MAC控制器的设计方法,采用自顶向下的方法设计各个模块,并在QuartusⅡ 8.0完成了仿真,该控制器主要支持IEEE802.15.4协议.测试结果表明,该MAC控制器支持20～250 kb·s<'-1>数据传输速率,适应IEEE802.15.4协议要求.     

RPCP‐MAC: Receiver preambling with channel polling MAC protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks

To design a reliable and energy efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is an active research area due to its variety of applications. There are many issues associated with underwater acoustic channels including long and variable propagation delay, attenuation, and limited bandwidth which pose significant challenges in the design of MAC protocol. The available sender‐initiated asynchronous preamble‐based MAC protocols for UWSNs are not reliable and energy‐efficient. This is due to the problems caused by transmission of preambles for longer duration and collision of preambles from hidden nodes in sender‐initiated preamble‐based MAC protocols. To resolve these issues, the paper proposed an asynchronous receiver‐initiated preamble‐based MAC protocol named Receiver Preambling with Channel Polling MAC (RPCP‐MAC) protocol for shallow underwater monitoring applications with high data rates. The protocol is proposed to resolve data packet collision and support reliability in an energy‐efficient way without using any transmission schedule. The proposed protocol is based on the following mechanisms. Firstly, receiver preambling mechanism is adopted to reduce idle listening. Secondly, channel polling mechanism is used to determine missing data frame during its sleeping period and to minimize the active time of node and reduces energy wastage. Finally, a back‐off mechanism is applied to resolve collision when preambles are received simultaneously. In addition, performance analysis through Markov chain together with its validation with simulation‐based studies is reported in the paper. Both the analytical and simulation results have demonstrated the reliability achievable with RPCP‐MAC while providing good energy efficiency.     

WDM光包交换城域网关键技术与MAC层协议

介绍了Packet over WDM技术在城域网（MAN）中的两种实现方案，对相应的MAC层协议进行了分析比较，在此基础上对其中应用的关键技术进行了具体说明。最后探讨了未来城域网的发展方向。     

MAC Protocol of a Next-Generation MAN Architecture Based on WDM and All-Optical Packet Switching

As media converge to the Internet, MANs will face new demands not only in terms of bandwidth, but also in terms of services. We describe a next generation MAN architecture that has been designed within Dutch project Flamingo. Based on all-optical packet switching, this architecture supports one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one communications in the optical domain. Specifically, we focus on the MAC layer of the network. We describe the access and fairness protocols and explain how the all-optical nature of the architecture affects the design of these protocols. We also discuss some performance results that have been obtained via simulation.     

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%。     

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...     

基于ATM的无源光网络媒质接入控制协议的设计

针对基于ＡＴＭ的无源光网络（ＡＴＭ－ＰＯＮ）设计了一种媒质接入控制（ＭＡＣ）协议。该协议的设计遵照ＩＴＵ－Ｔ有关ＡＴＭ－ＰＯＮ的建议Ｇ．９８３．１（１９９８年１０月）中所定义的帧结构。该协议能够支持ＣＢＲ／ＶＢＲ、ＡＢＲ和ＵＢＲ等多种业务,并能够保证用户公平地接入和充分地利用网络的资源。其中ＣＢＲ／ＶＢＲ业务的优先级最高,同时也确保ＡＢＲ业务至少能以最小信元通信。系统的剩余带宽资源被分配给ＵＢＲ业     

认知无线电网络的MAC协议机制

针对认知无线电网络可用信道资源随时间和空间环境变化的特点,分析了认知无线电网络MAC协议面临的问题,提出了一种基于全局控制信道的MAC协议方案,在此基础上阐述了两种接入方式及相应适用场合,实现了认知无线电节点对可用信道资源变化的感知,可为认知无线电MAC协议研究及应用提供参考.     

SDMAC: Selectively Directional MAC protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc networks

Using directional antennas in wireless mobile ad hoc networks can greatly improve the transmission range as well as the spatial reuse. However, it will also cause some problems such as deafness problem and hidden terminal problem, which greatly impair the network performance. This paper first proposes a MAC protocol called Selectively Directional MAC (SDMAC) that can effectively address these problems and significantly improve the network throughput. Then two improvements on SDMAC are proposed. The first one is to improve the network throughput by scheduling the packets in the queue (a scheme called Q-SDMAC), thus the head-of-line (HOL) blocking problem can be addressed. The second one is to relax the assumption that each node knows the relative directions of its neighboring nodes and use caches to buffer those relative directions (a scheme named Q-SDMAC using cache). Extensive simulations show that: (1) SDMAC can achieve much better performance than the existing MAC protocols using directional antennas; (2) The network throughput can be significantly improved by scheduling the packets in the queue; (3) Using caches can still achieve high network throughput when nodes are moving; and (4) Network throughput decreases when directional antennas have side lobe gain.