Analyzing Multi-Channel Medium Access Control Schemes With ALOHA Reservation
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jing Deng, Assistant Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: In order to improve the throughput performance
of Medium Access Control (MAC) schemes in wireless communication networks, some researchers proposed to divide a single shared channel into several sub-channels: one as control subchannel
and the others as data sub-channels. In this paper, we analyze and evaluate the maximum achievable throughput of a class of generic multi-channel MAC schemes that are based on the RTS/CTS (Ready-To-Send/Clear-To-Send) dialogue and on ALOHA contention resolution. We study these multichannel MAC schemes under two split-channel scenarios: the fixed-total-bandwidth scenario and the fixed-channel-bandwidth
scenario. In the fixed-total-bandwidth scenario, we show that
the throughput of the multi-channel MAC schemes is inferior
to that of the corresponding single-channel MAC scheme, which
sends the RTS/CTS packets and DATA packets on a single shared
channel. For the fixed-channel-bandwidth scenario, where CDMA
or similar techniques can be applied, we derive the optimal
number of the data sub-channels that maximizes the throughput.
The analytical framework that we derive in this paper can also
be used to evaluate other contention resolution technique, when
the average contention period is known.
Analyzing Multi-Channel Medium Access Control Schemes With ALOHA Reservation
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Additional Information
- Publication
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 2143-2152, August 2006.
- Language: English
- Date: 2006
- Keywords
- Medium access control, MAC, Shared channel ,
Multiple channels, ALOHA, Contention resolution, RTS/CTS dialogue