Title :
Polling scheme for indoor LOS optical wireless LAN
Author :
Hou, Jindong ; Brien, D. C O
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Sci., Univ. of Oxford, UK
fDate :
5/15/2003 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A novel polling scheme, which uses beam blockage sensing and channel reassignment, is proposed. Compared to other classic medium access control (MAC) protocols, it has significant performance improvement in both system throughput and average transfer delay.
Keywords :
access protocols; delays; optical links; wireless LAN; MAC protocols; average transfer delay; beam blockage sensing; channel reassignment; indoor LOS optical WLAN; indoor wireless LAN; medium access control protocols; polling scheme; system throughput;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20030503
