一种基于多用户分集的Ad Hoc网络MAC策略

提出一种Ad hoc网络的MAC层协议策略，运用了跨层的设计方法以及无线资源管理接入控制策略中多用户分集的思想。在MAC层，通过对物理层信道质量的判断，节点选择信道质量最好的节点进行数据传输。这样，系统中数据包的冲突有所减少。     

基于规则与感知的水声网络MAC协议

针对水声网络（UAN）媒体访问控制（MAC）协议采用RTS/CTS握手机制,导致信道利用率和网络吞吐量较低的问题,提出一套信道访问规则,基于该规则设计了节点状态感知的水声网络MAC(RP-MAC)协议。当接收节点不在收发状态,并且其他邻居节点也都不在接收状态时,发送节点才会尝试发送一到多个报文给接收节点。节点通过侦听和信道规则来感知邻居节点的状态,在降低冲突与重传的同时,避免了握手控制报文的交互。理论分析与仿真实验表明,与Slotted FAMA和R-MAC等传统水声网络MAC协议比较,RP-MAC协议在不降低包交付率的前提下,实现了水声网络的并发传输,显著提高了信道利用率和网络吞吐量,降低了能量消耗。     

移动自组网中联合优化设计的MAC/路由协议

文章针对节点数量多、密度大的一类移动自组网提出了一种跨层联合设计的MAC/路由协议.在MAC层上采用基于调度的信道分配算法以减少通信冲突,在网络层上结合使用表驱动路由和基于地理位置的路由来提高协议适应动态拓扑的能力,并设计了适合TDMA MAC协议的高效的消息交互机制.在OPNET仿真平台上与AODV/802.11和G...     

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。     

无线传感器MAC层协议的分析和研究

无线传感器网络(Wireless Sensor Network,WSN)一般由部署在监测区域内大量廉价微型传感器节点组成,通过无线通信方式形成一个多跳(mutli hop)的自组织(self organizing)网络系统。MAC层协议设计是无线传感器网络设计中的一个重要研究方面,通过对当前众多MAC协议的研究,提出了一种无线传感器网络MAC层协议的分类方法,通过分析比较典型的MAC层协议,给出了MAC层协议设计的评价标准。     

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。     

一种WLAN中认知无线电MAC协议的改进

针对认知无线电网络(Cognitive Radio Networks,CRN)特性,提出一种认知无线电MAC协议,该协议通过在认知节点对之间选择最优的信道进行数据传输,当最优信道被主用户占用以后,自动切换到次优信道进行通信,以提高通信成功的概率,达到增大吞吐量的目的。性能分析表明,该MAC协议相对IEEE802.11MAC协议,在吞吐量方面有一定的提高。     

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%。     

基于多信道预约的传感器网络MAC协议研究

针对传感器网络中三重隐终端问题,提出了一种基于自适应占空比的多信道MAC协议—MCR,MCR通过多信道预约机制高效地解决了该问题。在理论分析中,通过最小化节点平均信道切换次数的下界得出了节点的最优占空比。为验证MCR中多信道预约和自适应占空比机制的性能,进行了模拟和真实实验,实验结果表明,与其他MAC协议相比,随着信道数及网络负载的增加,MCR提高了网络吞吐量,降低了传输所消耗的能量。     

A Medium Access Control Protocol for Real Time Video over High Latency Satellite Channels

We report the results of extensive simulation work on a new satellite medium access control (MAC) protocol for medium quality interactive video. This MAC protocol uses combined random access/demand assigned multiple access (RA/DAMA). The underlying multiple access physical layer is time division multiple access (TDMA). The RA/DAMA MAC seeks to adaptively minimize the delay of each network layer (nl) packet that arrives to the output queue by transmitting packets on either a collision free demand assigned channel or on a collision possible random access channel. Combined with this dual channel transmission method is a new technique for acquiring demand assigned bandwidth, called a packet flow rate metric (PFRM). This metric seeks to track the slow time behavior of video traffic, leading to a significant reduction in the amount of DAMA signaling. All simulations were conducted using SMACS, the Satellite Medium Access Control Simulator [4], a simulation tool built into ns-2.0 (network simulator version 2) [10]. This simulation tool allowed us to evaluate our MAC protocol using an actual 2 hour long video trace rather than a parametric video traffic generator. Our results show that if light packet loss is tolerable (less than 3%), then significantly lower delays and higher link utilization can be achieved.     

Interference aware routing for mobile ad hoc networks based on node＇s sending and receiving capabilities

How to efficiently build routes among nodes is increasing important for mobile ad hoc networks （MANETs）. This paper puts forward an interference aware routing protocol called Interference aware cross layer routing protocol （IA-CLR） for MANETs based on the IEEE 802.11 medium access layer （MAC）. By defining the node＇s sending and receiving capabilities, IA-CLR can indicate the interference strength of the link in a real and comprehensive way. Further more, in order to choose the route with minimum bottleneck link interference, a new routing metric is proposed by combining the MAC layer and the network layer for cross layer design. Simulation results show that IA-CLR can significantly improve the performances of network such as the average end-to-end delay, the packets loss ratio and the throughput.     

Performance Analysis for a New Medium Access Control Protocol in Wireless LANs

One fundamental issue in high-speed wireless local area networks (LANs) is to develop efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols. In this paper, we focus on the performance improvement in both MAC layer and transport layer by using a novel medium access control protocol for high-speed wireless LANs deploying carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA). We first present a recently proposed distributed contention-based MAC protocol utilizing a Fast Collision Resolution (FCR) algorithm and show that the proposed FCR algorithm provides high throughput and low latency while improving the fairness performance. The performance of the FCR algorithm is compared with that of the IEEE 802.11 MAC algorithm via extensive simulation studies on both MAC layer and transport layer. The results show that the FCR algorithm achieves a significantly higher efficiency than the IEEE 802.11 MAC and can significantly improve transport layer performance.     

Modified Distributed Laxity Based Priority Scheduling Scheme

This paper proposes a medium access control (MAC) protocol for mobile Adhoc networks (MANET). The MAC layer is responsible for selecting the next packet to be transmitted and the timing of its transmission. Various new factors are introduced to determine the priority of the flow. The back-off mechanism devised by us grants node access to the channel based on the rank of its highest priority packets. It is clear that the proposed algorithm works better than the existing distributed laxity based priority-scheduling scheme and the same is proven using the simulation results using Glomosim.     

IEEE 802.11 medium access control enhancements based on simultaneous multiple‐input multiple‐output bandwidth sharing

The demand for higher data rate has spurred the adoption of multiple‐input multiple‐output (MIMO) transmission techniques in IEEE 802.11 products. MIMO techniques provide an additional spatial dimension that can significantly increase the channel capacity. A number of multiuser MIMO system have been proposed, where the multiple antenna at the physical layer are employed for multiuser access, allowing multiple users to share the same bandwidth. As these MIMO physical layer technologies further evolve, the usable bandwidth per application increases; hence, the average service time per application decreases. However, in the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function‐based systems, a considerable amount of bandwidth is wasted during the medium access and coordination process. Therefore, as the usable bandwidth is enhanced using MIMO technology, the bandwidth wastage of medium access and coordination becomes a significant performance bottleneck. Hence, there is a fundamental need for bandwidth sharing schemes at the medium access control (MAC) layer where multiple connections can concurrently use the increased bandwidth provided by the physical layer MIMO technologies. In this paper, we propose the MIMO‐aware rate splitting (MRS) MAC protocol and examine its behavior under different scenarios. MRS is a distributed MAC protocol where nodes locally cooperate with one another to share bandwidth via splitting the spatial channels of MIMO systems. Simulation results of MRS protocol are obtained and compared with those of IEEE 802.11n protocol. We show that our proposed MRS scheme can significantly outperform the IEEE 802.11n in medium access delay and throughput. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A cross-layer architecture to improve mobile host rate performance and to solve unfairness problem in WLANs

The evolution of the Internet has been mainly promoted in recent years by the emergence and proliferation of wireless access networks towards a global ambient and pervasive network accessed from mobile devices. These new access networks have introduced new MAC layers independently of the legacy “wire-oriented” protocols that are still at the heart of the protocol stacks of the end systems. This principle of isolation and independence between layers advocated by the OSI model has its drawbacks of maladjustment between new access methods and higher-level protocols built on the assumption of a wired Internet. In this paper, we introduce and deliver solutions for several pathological communication behaviors resulting from the maladjustment between WLAN MAC and higher layer standard protocols such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP. Specially, based on an efficient analytical model for WLANs bandwidth estimation, we address in this paper the two following issues: (1) Performance degradation due to the lack of flow control between the MAC and upper layer resulting in potential MAC buffer overflow; (2) Unfair bandwidth share issues between various type of flows. We show how these syndromes can be efficiently solved from neutral “cross layer” interactions which entail no changes in the considered protocols and standards.     

Improving Transport Layer Performance in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks by Exploiting MAC Layer Information

The traditional TCP congestion control mechanism encounters a number of new problems and suffers a poor performance when the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol is used in multihop ad hoc networks. Many of the problems result from medium contention at the MAC layer. In this paper, we first illustrate that severe medium contention and congestion are intimately coupled, and TCP's congestion control algorithm becomes too coarse in its granularity, causing throughput instability and excessively long delay. Further, we illustrate TCP's severe unfairness problem due to the medium contention and the tradeoff between aggregate throughput and fairness. Then, based on the novel use of channel busyness ratio, a more accurate metric to characterize the network utilization and congestion status, we propose a new wireless congestion control protocol (WCCP) to efficiently and fairly support the transport service in multihop ad hoc networks. In this protocol, each forwarding node along a traffic flow exercises the inter-node and intra-node fair resource allocation and determines the MAC layer feedback accordingly. The end-to-end feedback, which is ultimately determined by the bottleneck node along the flow, is carried back to the source to control its sending rate. Extensive simulations show that WCCP significantly outperforms traditional TCP in terms of channel utilization, delay, and fairness, and eliminates the starvation problem     

A cross-layer scheme for medium access control with QoS guaranteeing for Ad hoc networks

1 Introduction medium access control (MAC) protocols play a crucial role in determining the performance of Ad hoc networks. However, the design of MAC protocols for Ad hoc networks has traditionally been separated from that of the physical layer. In most …     

Analysis of a Cooperative Beacon-Free MAC Layer for Body Area Networks

This paper discusses medium access control (MAC) issues for body area networks (BANs), relying on an Ultrawide Band Impulse radio (UWB-IR) physical layer. BANs are bound to be coordinated by a powerful device like a smart-phone, which manage the access of the nodes on a beaconed fashion. But in some particular situations, the coordinator may disappear and/or be not yet available. These transient situations shall be addressed and a beacon-free medium access control is desirable. We propose a beacon-free MAC layer, based on a collaborative version of the preamble sampling approach. This is designed to address the European regulatory low duty cycle (LDC) constraint, which UWB devices must comply to. A Markov chain model is given to describe the protocol. By means of simulations, we first show that the model is accurate and secondly that this protocol looks able to manage various BANs configurations.     

A-MAC: Adaptive Medium Access Control for Next Generation Wireless Terminals

Next generation (NG) wireless networks are envisioned to provide high bandwidth to mobile users via bandwidth aggregation over heterogeneous wireless architectures. NG wireless networks, however, impose challenges due to their architectural heterogeneity in terms of different access schemes, resource allocation techniques as well as diverse quality of service requirements. These heterogeneities must be captured and handled dynamically as mobile terminals roam between different wireless architectures. However, to address these challenges, the existing proposals require either a significant modification in the network structure and in base stations or a completely new architecture, which lead to integration problems in terms of implementation costs, scalability and backward compatibility. Thus, the integration of the existing medium access schemes, e.g., CSMA, TDMA and CDMA, dictates an adaptive and seamless medium access control (MAC) layer that can achieve high network utilization and meet diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements. In this paper, an adaptive medium access control (A-MAC) layer is proposed to address the heterogeneities posed by the NG wireless networks. A-MAC introduces a two-layered MAC framework that accomplishes the adaptivity to both architectural heterogeneities and diverse QoS requirements. A novel virtual cube concept is introduced as a unified metric to model heterogeneous access schemes and capture their behavior. Based on the virtual cube concept, A-MAC provides architecture-independent decision and QoS based scheduling algorithms for efficient multi-network access. A-MAC performs seamless medium access to multiple networks without requiring any additional modifications in the existing network structures. It is shown via extensive simulations that A-MAC provides adaptivity to the heterogeneities in NG wireless networks and achieves high performance.