Title :
Hybrid Aloha: A Novel Medium Access Control Protocol
Author :
Li, Tongtong ; Wang, Huahui ; Tong, Lang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI
Abstract :
In this paper, a novel medium access control (MAC) protocol, name hybrid ALOHA, is proposed to improve the system performance by allowing collision-free channel estimation and simultaneous multiuser data transmission. The idea behind it is to design an MAC protocol that is in favor of the physical (PHY) layer information transmission, and the improved PHY layer, in turn, can improve the MAC performance. Using the general multipacket reception (MPR) model as an interface between the MAC layer and the PHY layer, the hybrid ALOHA protocol is analyzed in terms of throughput, stability, as well as delay behavior. Significant performance improvement is observed in comparison with the traditional ALOHA either with the MPR model or with the collision model
Keywords :
access protocols; channel estimation; data communication; MAC protocol; PHY layer; collision-free channel estimation; hybrid ALOHA; medium access control protocol; multipacket reception; multiuser data transmission; physical layer information transmission; Access protocols; Channel estimation; Channel state information; Data communication; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Physical layer; Stability analysis; System performance; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0469-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660954
