Energy considerations for topology-unaware TDMA MAC protocols

Since the energy budget of mobile nodes is limited, the performance of a networking protocol for such users should be evaluated in terms of its energy efficiency, in addition to the more traditional metrics such as throughput. In this paper, two topology-unaware MAC protocols—in which the scheduling time slots are allocated irrespectively of the underline topology—are considered and their energy consumption is derived. It turns out that the per frame power consumption is lower for the less throughput-efficient protocol, suggesting that energy savings are achieved at the expense of throughput.A finer energy consumption study is carried out in the sequel, focusing on the amount of energy consumed to successfully transmit a certain number of packets, or equivalently, on the per successful transmission power consumption. It is shown that the more throughput-efficient protocol consumes less energy per successful transmission under certain conditions (which are derived), due to the lower number of transmission attempts before a data packet is successfully transmitted. The same energy-efficiency relation is observed under certain conditions (which are derived) when data packets are delay constrained and, thus, may become obsolete if not transmitted successfully within a specific time interval. The conditions under which the per successful transmission power consumption is minimized for delay-constrained packets, are also established in this work and it is observed that when the system throughput is maximized, the power consumed is close to the minimum. Simulation results support the claims and the expectations of the aforementioned analysis.     

FHCF: A Simple and Efficient Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN

The IEEE 802.11e medium access control (MAC) layer protocol is an emerging standard to support quality of service (QoS) in 802.11 wireless networks. Some recent work shows that the 802.11e hybrid coordination function (HCF) can improve significantly the QoS support in 802.11 networks. A simple HCF referenced scheduler has been proposed in the 802.11e which takes into account the QoS requirements of flows and allocates time to stations on the basis of the mean sending rate. As we show in this paper, this HCF referenced scheduling algorithm is only efficient and works well for flows with strict constant bit rate (CBR) characteristics. However, a lot of real-time applications, such as videoconferencing, have some variations in their packet sizes, sending rates or even have variable bit rate (VBR) characteristics. In this paper we propose FHCF, a simple and efficient scheduling algorithm for 802.11e that aims to be fair for both CBR and VBR flows. FHCF uses queue length estimations to tune its time allocation to mobile stations. We present analytical model evaluations and a set of simulations results, and provide performance comparisons with the 802.11e HCF referenced scheduler. Our performance study indicates that FHCF provides good fairness while supporting bandwidth and delay requirements for a large range of network loads. Pierre Ansel received a multidisciplinary in-depth scientific training in different fields such as Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Mechanics, Computer Science and Economics from the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. Then, he joined the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France in 2005 where he went further into electronics, databases, computer network security and high speed networks. He received a multidisciplinary master of sciences degree and an additional master of sciences degree in telecommunications in 2005. He did a summer internship in 2003 in INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France where he worked on the Quality of Service in 802.11 networks at Planete Group, France. Then in 2004, he joined France Telecom R&D, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France to work on Intranet Security issues. He designed a WiFi security supervision architecture based on WiFi Intrusion Detection Sensors. He is currently a French civil servant and belongs to the French Telecommunications Corps. Qiang Ni received the B.Eng., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan City, China in 1993, 1996 and 1999 respectively. He is currently a faculty member in the Electronic and Computer Engineering Division,School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, West London, U.K. Between 2004 and 2005 he was a Senior Researcher at the Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. From 1999 to 2001, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the multimedia and wireless communication laboratory, HUST, China. He visited and conducted research at the wireless and networking group of Microsoft Research Asia Lab during the year of 2000. From Sept. 2001 until may 2004, he was a research staff member at the Planète group of INRIA Sophia Antipolis France. Since 2002, he has been active as a voting member at the IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN standard working group. His current research interests include communication protocol design and performance analysis for wireless networks, cross-layer optimizations, vertical handover and mobility management in mobile wireless networks, and adaptive multimedia transmission over hybrid wired/wireless networks. He has authored /co-authored over 40 international journal/conference papers, book chapters, and standard drafts in this field. He is a member of IEEE. E-mail: Qiang.Ni@ieee.org Thierry Turletti received the M.S. (1990) and the Ph.D. (1995) degrees in computer science both from the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France. He has done his PhD studies in the RODEO group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. During the year 1995–96, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Telemedia, Networks and Systems group at LCS, MIT. He is currently a research scientist at the Planete group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. His research interests include multimedia applications, congestion control and wireless networking. Dr. Turletti currently serves on the Editorial Board of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.     

An adaptive directional MAC protocol for ad hoc networks using directional antennas

A directional antenna can bring benefits in terms of power consumption,spatial reuse,etc.To exploit the advantage of directional antennas and improve the transmission throughput highest,this paper proposes an adaptive directional MAC protocol(ADMAC).By varying the transmission strategy according to the usage of the channel,nodes can send RTS and CTS packets omni-directionally or directionally.Also,this paper proposes a calculation method of virtual carrier sensing with collision avoidance.By the method,ADMAC protocol makes more pairs of nodes transmit and receive data simultaneously without interferences than other MAC protocols for directional antennas.The paper compares the simultaneous delivering nodes and network throughput of ADMAC with DMAC,DVCS and SDMAC under different experiment parameters.The simulation results show that the throughput of ADMAC is higher than the throughput of DMAC,DVCS and SDMAC protocols.     

基于RFID的银行尾箱智能交接系统的设计与实现

银行尾箱智能交接系统是以RFID射频技术、有线网络和无线网络技术为依托而建立的。实现银行尾箱交接业务链信息的实时快速采集和上传,尾箱信息随时读取,提供安全可靠的押运人员身份认证,运钞押运节点过程动态监控、审计与监督管理,实现银行尾箱管理的自动化和电子智能化。     

针对不同平台获取MAC地址的特定方法

文章提出了在不同操作系统以及不同平台上获取MAC地址的方法。以目前比较典型的两种操作系统:UNIX操作系统和WINDOWS操作系统为例,阐述了具体方法,并给出了相应的C/C++语言读取MAC地址的实现程序。     

MAC地址和IP地址在网络中的应用

计算机网络和Internet网络中,存在着的MAC(物理地址)和IP地址,网络双方的通信必须按照地址来进行,本文详细对介绍网络中的MAC和IP地址的知识并对它们的一些典型的应用进行了阐述。     

一个与Ethernet兼容的多媒体实时传输协议的设计

为适应办公自动化的需要, 探讨了一种集图像( 声音)/ 数据服务于一体的多媒体传输协议, 对协议的集成策略及执行过程进行了详尽说明, 并给出了协议进程的形式描述。经仿真运行证明, 用该协议实现的介质访问控制器( MAC) 能与传统的Ethernet MAC 共存于一个Ethernet 网上。该协议能满足图像( 声音) 的实时传输要求, 该协议只是对MAC 而言的, 因而对现存的数据链路层以上的协议无影响。     

一种低功耗的无线传感器网络MAC协议

在无线传感器网络中,为了避免不必要的能耗而达到延长网络寿命的目的,提出一种低功耗的无线传感器网络MAC协议。此协议在低功率侦听(LPL)基础上进行修改,通过前一次轮询的结果来推测这一次的流量状况,根据流量状况自适应调整侦听睡眠周期结构中相应的占空比,从而降低能耗。通过编程仿真并结合实验,对此模型进行验证,证明了此算法能降低能耗。     

.应用于中等负载无线传感器网络的节能型MAC协议

基于网络负载的大小,提出了适用于中等负载的无线传感器网络的节能MAC协议——EC-MAC协议。该协议引入概率p,采用TDMA方式和减少节点的空闲侦听时间来节能,提高了信道的利用率,延长了网络的生命周期。仿真结果表明,该协议在节省能量方面要优于传统TDMA和BMA协议。     

一种新的紫外光自组织通信网络MAC层避退算法

紫外光自组织通信网络是把紫外光与自组织网络相结合的,能够利用自组织网络的多跳特性来克服紫外光距离有限性的通信网络。为了使紫外光自组织通信网络中各个节点能够对有限的信道资源进行充分与公平的利用,需要对网络协议栈中的第二层——媒介接入控制层上的传统算法进行优化。本文以媒质接入控制层(MAC,Media Access Control)传统上采用的二进制指数退避算法为基础,以提高公平性为目的,提出了依据退避计数器值的随机选取是否合理,继而采取相应的奖励惩罚机制的新算法。研究结果表明:新算法提高了无线紫外光自组织通信网络中各节点接入信道的公平性,并在信道吞吐量和信道接入公平性之间达到了一个较好的折衷。