Ad Hoc网络基于簇的多信道MAC协议研究

介绍了一种适用于Ad Hoc网络的基于簇的多信道媒体接入控制协议。在该协议中,整个网络被划分成使用不同频道的若干个簇,每个节点配置有3个独立的无线收发信机,由簇首节点负责簇的维持功能,由簇首和簇成员节点通过共同执行信道重配置算法来完成信道分配工作。仿真结果表明,该协议可以很好地适应网络拓扑结构的频繁变化,在充分利用多信道优势工作的同时,解决了普遍存在于多跳无线移动网络中的隐藏终端和暴露终端问题。     

一种新的Ad Hoc网络的MAC协议及实现

MAC协议是无线AdHoc网络的一个重要的研究领域,特别是暴露终端和隐终端的解决尤为重要,同时网络的无组织性和多跳性也给接入带来了麻烦。首先介绍了MAC协议设计所面临的各种问题,然后叙述了一种新的在单信道下的MAC接入方法,采用了CSMA和时隙相结合的方式来提高效率,部分地解决了暴露终端和隐终端的问题,同时提高了路由效率。论述了如何在软件无线电平台以及嵌入式系统上实现这种接入方法。     

移动Ad Hoc网中的定向信道接入协议

为了提高移动Ad Hoc网信道利用率和吞吐量、克服隐藏终端问题，使用定向天线的信道接入(MAC)协议已被提出。本文介绍了基于移动Ad Hoc网的定向MAC协议，分类描述了四种定向MAC协议(全向RTS-全向CTS协议、定向RTS-全向CTS协议、定向RTS一定向CTS协议以及多跳RTS协议)，比较分析了其特点并指出了现有协议中存在的一些问题及今后可能的研究方向。     

基于载波监听的Ad Hoc网络双信道接入协议研究

双信道接入协议在解决隐终端和暴露终端问题上具有独特的优势.基于报文监听的Ad Hoc网络双信道接入协议无法消除数据报文的冲突.本文对基于载波监听的Ad Hoc网络双信道接入协议进行了研究,提出了DCMA载波监听信道接入协议.其中DCMA_CSBI通过载波监听和BI控制报文完全解决了隐终端和暴露终端问题.文章通过仿真对DCMA协议的性能进行了分析和比较.分析结果表明DCMA_CSBI是一种非常高效实用的Ad Hoc网络双信道接入协议,载波监听对Ad Hoc网络信道接入协议而言是至关重要的.     

基于SPMA协议的混合式信道负载统计方法

战术瞄准网络技术系统作为美军新一代战术数据链系统,在链路层面以"全双工"通信为基础实现了基于优先级概率统计的多址接入协议SPMA(Statistic Priority-based Multiple Access)。战术数据链的链路层协议或称MAC协议描述了节点接入无线信道的规则,采用合适的MAC协议,能够更合理地分配有限的无线带宽资源,是战术数据链的关键技术之一。本文主要对统计优先级多址接入(SPMA)协议的信道占用状态进行研究,从物理层和网络层两方面对信道占用状态进行统计,然后采用预测技术有效的估计实际的信道占用状态,设计了一种准确的混合式信道负载统计方法,有效地降低了信道冲突,保证了数据发送的实时性和高优先级数据较高的成功传输概率。     

一种并行传输的水声Ad hoc网络多址接入(PTMA)协议

由于存在"隐藏终端"和"暴露终端"的问题,无线Ad hoc网络的应用受到极大的限制.进一步,由于水声信道的特点,例如有用的频率带宽很窄,强时变、多途和长传播时延,使得设计水声Ad hoc网络具有自身特点和难度.本文中,我们为此提出了一种新的多址接入控制(MAC)协议,即并行传输多址接入(PTMA)协议.该协议基于如下思想:为消除冲突而进行多信道预约,这样能在多个信道上并行地传输数据;为缩短等待clear_-to_-send(CTS)的时间,当request_-to_-send(RTS)刚发送完就立即发送分组数据,而不必收到CTS后再发.通过使用OPNET Modeler/Radio仿真器得到的仿真结果显示:PTMA协议能取得较之于适合无线Ad hoc网络的多址接入协议更高的吞吐性能和较低的端到端传播时延.     

基于Ad hoc网络的退避算法研究

在移动Ad hoc网络中,无线信道由多个节点共享,合理协调多个节点访问共享信道的媒体接入控制(MAC,Medium Access Control)协议是移动Ad hoc网络的关键技术之一。退避算法在MAC协议中起着至关重要的作用。针对目前退避算法存在的问题,本文提出了一种改进算法,根据网络节点发送数据包成功与否,预测网络信道空闲或繁忙的趋势,应用趋势合理地调节退避算法中节点发送数据时退避值的大小,并通过Omnet++软件对算法进行了仿真分析对比。     

多信道无线Mesh网络的性能研究

在无线Mesh网络中使用多信道可以减少碰撞和干扰,提高系统吞吐量。本文先介绍无线Mesh网络,然后介绍多信道在无线Mesh网络中的应用,分析了几种常用的多信道MAC协议。接着着重阐述了多信道无线Mesh网络所面临的问题与挑战,对信道分配、路由选择和隐蔽终端这3个主要问题进行分析,并对其研究设计方向进行了展望。     

多信道无线Mesh网络的性能研究

在无线Mesh网络中使用多信道可以减少碰撞和干扰,提高系统吞吐量.本文先介绍无线Mesh网络,然后介绍多信道在无线Mesh网络中的应用,分析了几种常用的多信道MAC协议.接着着重阐述了多信道无线Mesh网络所面临的问题与挑战,对信道分配、路由选择和隐蔽终端这3个主要问题进行分析,并对其研究设计方向进行了展望.     

Ad hoc网络技术讲座第1讲Ad hoc网络的体系结构和信道接入协议

本文首先介绍Ad hoc网络的概貌，然后分析Ad hoc网络的体系结构。在介绍了信道接入协议的地位和作用后，对Ad hoc网络特有的信道共享方式。隐终端和暴露终端问题进行了介绍和分析。文章把Ad hoc网络的信道接入协议划分成基于单信道、双信道和多信道三类，最后给出了Ad hoc网络信道接入协议的发展动向。     

水下无线传感器网络MAC协议分析

在水下无线传感器网络中,MAC (Medium Access Control)协议为相互竞争的用户之间公平地分配信道资源.介绍了水声通信的特点以及在此环境下设计MAC协议所面临的主要问题,归纳水下无线传感器网络MAC协议的设计原则和分类方法.通过分析当前典型的各类MAC协议的主要机制,详细比较这些协议的特点、性能差异和...     

ATMAC: adaptive token‐based medium access control protocol for cognitive radio wireless mesh network

In next generation wireless communication, cognitive radio technology facilitates to utilize underutilized licensed frequency bands that help to enhance the spectrum utilization. Cognitive radio wireless mesh network (CRWMN) is a promising and reliable technology to experience high throughput with low cost. Existing IEEE 802.11 based medium access control (MAC) protocols offer high data rates with decreasing efficiency at the MAC layer. Hence, most of the researchers applied aggregation mechanisms to provide the solution to bandwidth craving applications. In CRWMN, MAC design is significant because stability, efficient resource utilization, and scalability are predominating problems; however, the specified MAC issues are not yet resolved. The proposed MAC is novel, which aims to ensure reliability and scalability for CRWMN. The common control channel is used to exchange handshaking frames between the transmitter and receiver. It helps us to schedule the data transmission as well as reserve the channel in a discrete time interval. It introduces a token‐based channel accessing mechanism with resource‐aware channel assignment, which resolves the problems of efficiency and stability. The proposed MAC simulated using the network simulator (ns‐2), and the simulation results demonstrate that the proposed protocol improved the performance compared with the existing protocols.     

Busy tone contention protocol: a new high‐throughput and energy‐efficient wireless local area network medium access control protocol using busy tone

Design of an efficient wireless medium access control (MAC) protocol is a challenging task due to the time‐varying characteristics of wireless communication channel and different delay requirements in diverse applications. To support variable number of active stations and varying network load conditions, random access MAC protocols are employed. Existing wireless local area network (WLAN) protocol (IEEE 802.11) is found to be inefficient at high data rates because of the overhead associated with the contention resolution mechanism employed. The new amendments of IEEE 802.11 that support multimedia traffic (IEEE 802.11e) are at the expense of reduced data traffic network efficiency. In this paper, we propose a random access MAC protocol called busy tone contention protocol (BTCP) that uses out‐of‐band signals for contention resolution in WLANs. A few variants of this protocol are also proposed to meet the challenges in WLAN environments and application requirements. The proposed BTCP isolate multimedia traffics from background data transmissions and gives high throughput irrespective of the number of contending stations in the network. As a result, in BTCP, admission control of multimedia flows becomes simple and well defined. Studies of the protocol, both analytically and through simulations under various network conditions, have shown to give better performance in comparison with the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

无线传感网混合类MAC协议研究综述

在无线传感网( WSN)体系结构中,介质访问控制( MAC)协议负责调配网络中节点的信道接入,具有保障网络高效通信的重要作用。混合类MAC 协议综合了竞争类MAC 协议以及调度类MAC协议的特点,在融合两种机制的优点的同时克服其缺点,为无线信道资源的分配提供了更加灵活和全面的策略。首先概述了无线传感网MAC协议设计要点及分类,然后重点分析了无线传感网中经典的混合类MAC协议及国内外前沿的研究进展,并进一步归纳对比了各协议运行机制、性能及不足,得出混合类MAC协议的应用相关性及差异性的结论,最后总结了无线传感网混合类MAC协议研究现状并指出了未来的研究重点,以期为相关领域的研究人员提供参考。     

On Channel Adaptive Multiple Access Control without Contention Queue for Wireless Multimedia Services

As tetherless multimedia computing environments are becoming much desired, broadband wireless communication infrastructures for providing wireless multimedia services will play an important role, and thus, are expected to proliferate. However, despite much research efforts have been expended, the multiple access control of the precious bandwidth remains a challenging problem because of the existence of two common drawbacks in the state-of-the-art protocols: (1) channel condition is ignored or not exploited, and (2) inflexible or biased time slots allocation algorithms are used. Indeed, existing protocols mostly ignore the burst errors due to fading and shadowing, which are inevitable in a mobile and wireless communication environment. A few protocols take into account the burst errors but just handle the errors in a passive manner. Most of the existing protocols employ an inflexible or biased allocation algorithm such that over-provisioning may occur for a certain class of users at the expense of the poor service quality received by other users. In this paper, a new MAC protocol, called SCAMA (synergistic channel adaptive multiple access) is proposed. The proposed protocol works closely with the underlying physical layer in that through observing the channel state information (CSI) of each mobile user, the MAC protocol first segregates a set of users with good CSI from requests gathered in the request contention phase of an uplink frame. The MAC protocol then judiciously allocates information time slots to the users according to the respective traffic types, CSI, urgency, and throughput, which are collectively represented by a novel and flexible priority function. Despite that contention request queue is not used in the protocol, the SCAMA protocol is robust in that it can avoid the congestion collapse which occur in other protocols.     

On MAC optimization for large-scale wireless sensor network

The media access control (MAC) performance of a large-scale wireless sensor network (L-WSN) determines the efficiency of the wireless communication channel. A good MAC protocol could reduce network energy consumption and network delay, which are two problems to be solved urgently in L-WSN. In this paper, we proposed a multi-level integrated MAC protocol (MI-MAC) to solve the overall performance optimization problem of L-WSN. Compared with other protocols, MI-MAC has two mainly improved performances: (1) It improved binary exponential backoff algorithm by twice back off strategy; (2) It designed a sending and receiving algorithm based on the threshold value to recognize control frames (small frames), which effectively avoids the collision probability of data frame. The simulation results show that the MI-MAC protocol improves network throughput and delay performance, significantly reduces energy consumption, and obtains overall network optimization.     

A quantitative comparison of multiple access control protocols forwireless ATM

The multiple access control (MAC) problem in a wireless network has intrigued researchers for years. For a broad-band wireless network such as wireless ATM, an effective MAC protocol is very much desired because efficient allocation of channel bandwidth is imperative in accommodating a large user population with satisfactory quality of service. Indeed, MAC protocols for a wireless ATM network in which user traffic requirements are highly heterogeneous (classified into CBR, VBR, and ABR), are even more intricate to design. Considerable research efforts expended in tackling the problem have resulted in a myriad of MAC protocols. While each protocol is individually shown to be effective by the respective designers, it is unclear how time different protocols compare against each other on a unified basis. In this paper, we quantitatively compare seven previously proposed TDMA-based MAC protocols for integrated wireless data and voice services. We first propose a taxonomy of TDMA-based protocols, from which we carefully select seven protocols, namely SCAMA, DTDMA/VR, DTDMA/PR, DQRUMA, DPRMMA, DSA++, and PRMA/DA, such that they are devised based on rather orthogonal design philosophies. The objective of our comparison is to highlight the merits and demerits of different protocol designs     

Multichannel medium access control for ad hoc wireless networks

In this paper, we study the multichannel exposed terminal problem in multihop wireless networks. We propose a multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol, called multichannel MAC protocol with hopping reservation (MMAC‐HR), to resolve the multichannel exposed terminal problem. MMAC‐HR uses two radio interfaces; one interface is fixed over the control channel, and the other interface switches dynamically between data channels. The fixed interface supports broadcast information and reserves a data channel for any data transmission. The switchable interface, on other hand, is for data exchanges and follows independent slow hopping without requiring clock synchronization. In addition, the proposed protocol is a distributed one. By using the ns‐2 simulator, extensive simulations are performed to demonstrate that MMAC‐HR can enhance the network throughput and delay compared with existing multichannel MAC protocol. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Towards a classification of energy aware MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks

Power management is an important issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because wireless sensor nodes are usually battery powered, and an efficient use of the available battery power becomes an important concern specially for those applications where the system is expected to operate for long durations. This necessity for energy efficient operation of a WSN has prompted the development of new protocols in all layers of the communication stack. Provided that, the radio transceiver is the most power consuming component of a typical sensor node, large gains can be achieved at the link layer where the medium access control (MAC) protocol controls the usage of the radio transceiver unit. MAC protocols for sensor networks differ greatly from typical wireless networks access protocols in many issues. MAC protocols for sensor networks must have built‐in power conservation, mobility management, and failure recovery strategies. Furthermore, sensor MAC protocols should make performance trade‐off between latency and throughput for a reduction in energy consumption to maximize the lifetime of the network. This is in general achieved through duty cycling the radio transceiver. Many MAC protocols with different objectives were proposed for wireless sensor networks in the literature. Most of these protocols take into account the energy efficiency as a main objective. There is much more innovative work should be done at the MAC layer to address the hard unsolved problems. In this paper, we first outline and discuss the specific requirements and design trade‐offs of a typical wireless sensor MAC protocol by describing the properties of WSN that affect the design of MAC layer protocols. Then, a typical collection of wireless sensor MAC protocols presented in the literature are surveyed, classified, and described emphasizing their advantages and disadvantages whenever possible. Finally, we present research directions and identify open issues for future medium access research. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Location-Aware Two-Phase Coding Multi-Channel MAC Protocol (LA-TPCMMP) for MANETs

In classical code division multiple access (CDMA) based multi-channel medium access control (MAC) protocols for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), numerous exchanges of neighborhood information are required for code assignment such that nodes within a two-hop separation will adopt different transmission codes and therefore avoid the hidden terminal problem (HTP). However, such expensive communication overhead for code assignment is not desirable since it will cause an under-utilization of bandwidth, energy inefficiency and longer delays, which can significantly degrade the network performance. In this paper, a novel location-aware multi-channel MAC protocol is presented for a large-scale dense MANETs based on a scalable two-phase coding scheme, where the first-phase code is used for differentiating adjacent cells and the second-phase code is employed for distinguishing nodes in one specific cell. A node knows its first-phase code from its location information and requests its second-phase code from its cell leaden. This protocol eliminates the HTP during data transmission without the periodical exchange of neighborhood information. Furthermore, the mechanism of collision resolution in the control channel is described. The performance of the proposed protocol is analyzed in terms of the control overhead and delay. The theoretical results are confirmed by extensive simulations and it is shown that the new protocol significantly outperforms the classical CDMA-based multi-channel MAC protocols