Application of a multi-carrier modulation to a nondeterministic MAC based home LAN and its effect on performance

Author

Suh, Sang-Bum ; Grea, David J.

Author_Institution

Comput. Lab., Cambridge Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

25-28 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

1135

Abstract

Non-deterministic MAC (media access control) such as CSMA/CD (carrier sense multiple access/collision detection) is popular due to its simple mechanism in terms of maintenance and extensibility of the LAN. On the other hand, its performance is less predictable as its collision resolution period is not deterministic. Such non-deterministic nature makes it difficult to guarantee the QoS (quality of service) of real-time packets depending on collision resolution algorithms. This paper shows the performance improvement of a home LAN using CSMA/CD MAC through simulation and analytic estimation when multi-carrier modulation is applied to a collision resolution technique to utilise a redundancy in the frequency domain and compares it with the one of HomePNA 2.0 MAC in terms of throughput and delay.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; access protocols; carrier sense multiple access; delays; home computing; local area networks; packet radio networks; performance evaluation; quality of service; CSMA/CD MAC; HomePNA 2.0 MAC; QoS; carrier sense multiple access/collision detection; collision resolution algorithms; collision resolution period; delay; frequency domain redundancy; maintenance; multi-carrier modulation; nondeterministic MAC based home LAN; performance; quality of service; real-time packets; simulation; throughput; Analytical models; Delay estimation; Frequency domain analysis; Frequency estimation; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Quality of service; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, 2002. ICCS 2002. The 8th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7510-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCS.2002.1183310

Filename

1183310