A Distributed Relay MAC Protocol in WiMedia Wireless Personal Area

Author

Shin, Hyunmee ; Kim, Yongsun ; Pack, Sangheon ; Kang, Chul-Hee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Univ., Jochiwon

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

784

Lastpage

789

Abstract

Relay transmission is a promising technology for improving the throughput and energy efficiency in multi-rate wireless personal area networks (WPANs). In this paper, we propose a distributed relay MAC (DR-MAC) protocol in Wi-Media WPANs. DR-MAC extends a distributed reservation protocol (DRP) in WiMedia MAC and neighbor information for relay transmission can be collected during the beacon period. Therefore, DR-MAC can minimize control overhead for relay transmission and is compatible to the standard WiMedia MAC protocol. We also introduce a medium access slot (MAS) allocation procedure for maximizing the efficiency in DR-MAC. Compared with direct transmission, extensive simulation results demonstrate that DR-MAC can improve the throughput by 10% and reduce the energy consumption by 26% when the number of devices is 20.

Keywords

access protocols; personal area networks; WiMedia wireless personal area networks; distributed relay MAC protocol; distributed reservation protocol; medium access slot allocation; relay transmission; Access protocols; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; HDTV; Media Access Protocol; Relays; Robustness; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless personal area networks; Distributed MAC; Relay MAC; WPAN; WiMedia;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 2008. ISPA '08. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3471-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPA.2008.135

Filename

4725227