Performance Analysis of WiMedia UWB MAC

Author

Ruby, Rukhsana ; Pan, Jianping

Author_Institution

Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 June 2009

Firstpage

504

Lastpage

510

Abstract

Ultra wide band (UWB) technologies have attracted a lot of attention recently due to their large bandwidth and low power emission, which are suitable for in-door, high-speed multimedia communications. In this paper, we focus on the modeling and analysis of WiMedia UWB media access control (MAC) protocols, particularly prioritized contention access with the presence of distributed reservation protocol. Such analysis is for the first time evaluated in a commonly-used network simulator (NS-2). The performance results show the effectiveness of the improved models, and indicate the further enhancement for UWB-based IPTV in-home distribution networks.

Keywords

access protocols; indoor radio; multimedia communication; ultra wideband communication; NS-2; UWB-based IPTV; WiMedia UWB MAC; distributed reservation protocol; home distribution network; indoor multimedia communication; low-power emission; media access control protocol; network simulator; performance analysis; prioritized contention access; ultra wide band technology; Access protocols; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Distributed computing; IPTV; Interference; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Principal component analysis; Quality of service; MAC; UWB; analysis and evaluation; modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2009. ICDCS Workshops '09. 29th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

1545-0678

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3660-6

Electronic_ISBN

1545-0678

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2009.73

Filename

5158905