ARQ protocol for infrared wireless LANs: packet-level ACK or no-packet-level ACK?

Author

Ozugur, Timucin ; Naghshineh, Mahmoud ; Kermani, Parviz ; Olsen, C. Michael ; Rezvani, Babak ; Copeland, John A.

Author_Institution

Commun. Syst. Center, Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

5-9 Oct 1998

Firstpage

1235

Abstract

The use of packet-level acknowledgements in the infrared medium access control layer is discussed. Currently, infrared link access control protocols use go-back-N ARQ scheme. Any ARQ scheme is optional in the MAC layer. The advantages and disadvantages of using stop-and-Wait ARQ scheme in the medium access control layer as well as go-back-N ARQ in the link control layer are discussed. The system is compared to a system in which no ARQ scheme is used in the medium access layer. The performances of both systems are investigated in the presence of adaptive data rate mechanism

Keywords

access protocols; automatic repeat request; optical communication; packet switching; wireless LAN; ARQ protocol; MAC layer; adaptive data rate mechanism; go-back-N ARQ; go-back-N ARQ scheme; infrared link access control protocols; infrared medium access control layer; infrared wireless LAN; link control layer; medium access layer; no-packet-level ACK; packet-level ACK; packet-level acknowledgements; system performance; Access control; Access protocols; Automatic repeat request; Bit rate; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber communication; Physical layer; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications, 1998. ICUPC '98. IEEE 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

ISSN

1091-8442

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5106-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1998.733693

Filename

733693