Simulation of MAC Protocol in Near Space Communication Network Based on TDMA

Author

Zhu Zi-hang ; Liang Jun ; Yu Jiang-ming ; Zhao Hui

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Eng. Inst., Air Force Eng. Univ., Xi´an, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A network model for the near space communication network is established by the means of OPNET as a development environment, and a medium access control (MAC) protocol based on TDMA (time division multiple access) is designed, leading to the channel resource being shared efficiently. A formula for the average end to end (ETE) delay of the network is delivered according to the queue theory. Simulation results show theoretic analysis can accurately estimate the average ETE delay of the network.

Keywords

access protocols; space communication links; time division multiple access; MAC protocol; OPNET; TDMA; average end to end delay; medium access control protocol; near space communication network; time division multiple access; Access protocols; Communication networks; Delay effects; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Power engineering and energy; Propagation delay; Queueing analysis; Satellites; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3692-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3693-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2009.5302534

Filename

5302534