Performance evaluation of a MAC protocol for radio over fiber wireless LAN operating in the 60-GHz band

Author

Kim, Hong Bong ; Wolisz, Adam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Berlin Tech. Univ., Germany

Volume

5

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

2659

Abstract

Wireless networks using radio over fiber (RoF) technology operating in millimeter-wave (mm-wave) bands have been suggested as promising solutions to meet increasing user bandwidth and mobility demands. Due to the high penetration loss of mm-wave band signal, a wireless LAN (WLAN) based on this technology has properties quite different from those of conventional WLAN systems. That is, every room in a building should have at least one base station (BS). Thus, a challenging problem lies in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design so that it can support QoS requirements as well as a fast and easy handover. A MAC protocol (chess board protocol) based on frequency switching (FS) codes has been proposed by the authors considering the situation (H. B. Kim et al., April 2003). In this paper performance evaluation results for simple six variants of it are described and discussed.

Keywords

access protocols; microwave photonics; optical fibre LAN; quality of service; telecommunication switching; wireless LAN; 60 GHz; MAC protocol; QoS requirement; frequency switching code; local area network; medium access control protocol; millimeter-wave band; quality of service; radio over fiber wireless LAN; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Base stations; Buildings; Media Access Protocol; Millimeter wave technology; Optical fiber LAN; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7974-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258718

Filename

1258718