In view of the problem that existing Media Access Control(MAC) protocols can not pro-vide real-time monitor on network conditions,this paper puts forward a new MAC protocol- Predict and Feedback MAC(PFMAC) which can p...In view of the problem that existing Media Access Control(MAC) protocols can not pro-vide real-time monitor on network conditions,this paper puts forward a new MAC protocol- Predict and Feedback MAC(PFMAC) which can predict the channel's congestion level reasonably.The dominant idea of the new scheme is to record the channel's busy or idle situation in the backoff stage by sending Sensor Nodes(SNs),and according to the congestion level every SN can change the contention window adaptively when send packets successfully to minimize collisions,saving energy and channel resources.The result of simulation shows that compared with other MAC protocols,the PFMAC protocol can improve network throughput and reduce energy consumption in high speed network en-vironment.展开更多
This paper proposes a novel multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol based on CDMA that improves network performance and reduces collision probability in wireless ad hoc networks. In the scheme, the code ch...This paper proposes a novel multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol based on CDMA that improves network performance and reduces collision probability in wireless ad hoc networks. In the scheme, the code channel is divided into common channel, broadcast channel and several data channels. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol can achieve significantly better performance than the IEEE 802.11 standard.展开更多
Wireless networking in cyber-physical systems(CPSs) is characteristically different from traditional wireless systems due to the harsh radio frequency environment and applications that impose high real-time and reliab...Wireless networking in cyber-physical systems(CPSs) is characteristically different from traditional wireless systems due to the harsh radio frequency environment and applications that impose high real-time and reliability constraints.One of the fundamental considerations for enabling CPS networks is the medium access control protocol. To this end, this paper proposes a novel priority-aware frequency domain polling medium access control(MAC) protocol, which takes advantage of an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access(OFDMA)physical layer to achieve instantaneous priority-aware polling.Based on the polling result, the proposed work then optimizes the resource allocation of the OFDMA network to further improve the data reliability. Due to the non-polynomial-complete nature of the OFDMA resource allocation, we propose two heuristic rules,based on which an efficient solution algorithm to the OFDMA resource allocation problem is designed. Simulation results show that the reliability performance of CPS networks is significantly improved because of this work.展开更多
The mobility of the targets asks for high requirements of the locating speed in indoor positioning systems.The standard medium access control(MAC)algorithm will often cause lots of packet conflicts and high transmissi...The mobility of the targets asks for high requirements of the locating speed in indoor positioning systems.The standard medium access control(MAC)algorithm will often cause lots of packet conflicts and high transmission delay if multiple users communicate with one beacon at the same time,which will severely limit the speed of the system.Therefore,an optimized MAC algorithm is proposed based on channel reservation to enable users to reserve beacons.A frame threshold is set to ensure the users with shorter data frames do not depend on the reservation mechanism,and multiple users can achieve packets switching with relative beacon in a fixed sequence by using frequency division multiplexing technology.The simulation results show that the optimized MAC algorithm proposed in this paper can improve the positioning speed significantly while maintaining the positioning accuracy.Moreover,the positioning accuracy can be increased to a certain extent if more channel resources can be obtained,so as to provide effective technical support for the location and tracking applications of indoor moving targets.展开更多
Medium access control( MAC) protocol of underwater acoustic communication network is a key technology for underwater acoustic networks( UANs). Most of the MAC protocols for wireless terrestrial communication networks ...Medium access control( MAC) protocol of underwater acoustic communication network is a key technology for underwater acoustic networks( UANs). Most of the MAC protocols for wireless terrestrial communication networks have been designed with negligible propagation delay. If it is deployed directly in an underwater environment,the UANs will perform inefficiently. In this paper,the characteristics of underwater acoustic channel are modeled and simulated by using the OPNET simulation tool,which are the speed of sound, propagation loss, and four sources for ambient noise: the turbulence,shipping,wind driven waves and thermal noise. The performance of pure Aloha( P-Aloha),carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance( CSMA / CA) and multiple access collision avoidance for wireless local area network( MACAW) protocols in underwater acoustic channel environment are evaluated. The different performance of protocols in underwater environment is compared in the simulation.展开更多
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of key energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). At the outset, we outline the crucial attributes of a good MAC pr...In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of key energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). At the outset, we outline the crucial attributes of a good MAC protocol for WBAN. Several sources that contribute to the energy inefficiency of WBAN are identified, and features of the various MAC protocols qualitatively compared. Then, we further investigate some representative TDMA-based energy-efficient MAC protocols for WBAN by emphasizing their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we conclude with a number of open research issues with regard to WBAN MAC layer.展开更多
Traditional underwater acoustic communication networks(UACNs)generally use omnidirectional transmission technology that causes a large number of data-packet collisions,thus resulting in low network throughput and high...Traditional underwater acoustic communication networks(UACNs)generally use omnidirectional transmission technology that causes a large number of data-packet collisions,thus resulting in low network throughput and high end-to-end delays.Compared with omnidirectional transmission technology,directional technology only sends and receives data packets in a specified direction.This can significantly reduce the probability of collisions and improve network performance.However,it also causes a deafness problem,which occurs when the sending node sends a data packet to the receiving node but the receiving node is unable to reply to the sender,because its antenna beam is closed.To resolve this issue,this study proposes a collision classification media access control(CC-MAC)protocol for UACNs.With this protocol,the underwater acoustic channel is divided into two subchannels,and the nodes transmit corresponding data types on them.The sending node can estimate the current status of the receiving node(i.e.,no collision,normal collision,deafness)according to the type of the data packet received and the sub-channel it arrived on,and it can choose correct options to improve network efficiency.Finally,we verify the performance of CC-MAC via simulations,showing that the protocol achieved higher network throughput and lower end-toend delays.展开更多
According to analyze the facade phenomenon of wire-less sensor networks(WSNs),this paper proposes a feasible method to state clearly and improve the power control efficiency of wire-less sensor networks(WSNs). One...According to analyze the facade phenomenon of wire-less sensor networks(WSNs),this paper proposes a feasible method to state clearly and improve the power control efficiency of wire-less sensor networks(WSNs). One of the crucial problems for WSNs is the design of medium access control (MAC) protocol. Our method want to adjust the activities of the MAC protocols control to achieve the enery conservation when the wireless communication module of sensor nodes is running, which is the major consumer of energy consumed by sensors energy. The energy efficiency of MAC protocol makes a strong impact on the network performance. To some extent,our research work describes and analyze the sources of energy consumption in MAC layer and simultaneously present an optimal method for the design of MAC protocol. Then we discusses some factors impacting on the performance of MAC protocol and metrics of performance evaluation. Eventually, the coming research direction is summarized.展开更多
Wireless body area networks (WBANs) can provide low-cost, timely healthcare services and are expected to be widely used for e-healthcare in hospitals. In a hospital, space is often limited and multiple WBANs have to...Wireless body area networks (WBANs) can provide low-cost, timely healthcare services and are expected to be widely used for e-healthcare in hospitals. In a hospital, space is often limited and multiple WBANs have to coexist in an area and share the same channel in order to provide healthcare services to different patients. This causes severe interference between WBANs that could significantly reduce the network throughput and increase the amount of power consumed by sensors placed on the body. There-fore, an efficient channel-resource allocation scheme in the medium access control (MAC) layer is crucial. In this paper, we devel-op a centralized MAC layer resource allocation scheme for a WBAN. We focus on mitigating the interference between WBANs and reducing the power consumed by sensors. Channel and buffer state are reported by smartphones deployed in each WBAN, and channel access allocation is performed by a central controller to maximize network throughput. Sensors have strict limitations in terms of energy consumption and computing capability and cannot provide all the necessary information for channel allocation in a timely manner. This deteriorates network performance. We exploit the temporal correlation of the body area channel in order to minimize the number of channel state reports necessary. We view the network design as a partly observable optimization prob-lem and develop a myopic policy, which we then simulate in Matlab.展开更多
IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi networks are prone to many denial of service(DoS)attacks due to vulnerabilities at the media access control(MAC)layer of the 802.11 protocol.Due to the data transmission nature of the wireless local ...IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi networks are prone to many denial of service(DoS)attacks due to vulnerabilities at the media access control(MAC)layer of the 802.11 protocol.Due to the data transmission nature of the wireless local area network(WLAN)through radio waves,its communication is exposed to the possibility of being attacked by illegitimate users.Moreover,the security design of the wireless structure is vulnerable to versatile attacks.For example,the attacker can imitate genuine features,rendering classificationbased methods inaccurate in differentiating between real and false messages.Althoughmany security standards have been proposed over the last decades to overcome many wireless network attacks,effectively detecting such attacks is crucial in today’s real-world applications.This paper presents a novel resource exhaustion attack detection scheme(READS)to detect resource exhaustion attacks effectively.The proposed scheme can differentiate between the genuine and fake management frames in the early stages of the attack such that access points can effectively mitigate the consequences of the attack.The scheme is built through learning from clustered samples using artificial neural networks to identify the genuine and rogue resource exhaustion management frames effectively and efficiently in theWLAN.The proposed scheme consists of four modules whichmake it capable to alleviates the attack impact more effectively than the related work.The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed technique by gaining an 89.11%improvement compared to the existing works in terms of detection.展开更多
In this paper, we propose a mechanism named modified backoff (MB) mechanism to decrease the channel idle time in IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). In the noisy channel, when signal-to-noise rat...In this paper, we propose a mechanism named modified backoff (MB) mechanism to decrease the channel idle time in IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). In the noisy channel, when signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is low, applying this mechanism in DCF greatly improves the throughput and lowers the channel idle time. This paper presents an analytical model for the performance study of IEEE 802.11 MB-DCF for nonsaturated heterogeneous traffic in the presence of transmission errors. First, we introduce the MB-DCF and compare its performance to IEEE 802.11 DCF with binary exponential backoff (BEB). The IEEE 802.11 DCF with BEB mechanism suffers from more channel idle time under low SNR. The MB-DCF ensures high throughput and low packet delay by reducing the channel idle time under the low traffic in the network. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, there are no previous works that enhance the performance of the DCF under imperfect wireless channel. We show through analysis that the proposed mechanism greatly outperforms the original IEEE 802.11 DCF in the imperfect channel condition. The effectiveness of physical and link layer parameters on throughput performance is explored. We also present a throughput investigation of the heterogeneous traffic for different radio conditions.展开更多
This paper presents a mathematical model that analyzes the throughput of the IEEE 802.11b distributed coordination function (DCF) with the collision aware rate adaptation (CARA) algorithm. IEEE 802.11 WLANs provid...This paper presents a mathematical model that analyzes the throughput of the IEEE 802.11b distributed coordination function (DCF) with the collision aware rate adaptation (CARA) algorithm. IEEE 802.11 WLANs provide multiple transmission rates to improve system throughput by adapting the transmission rate to the current channel conditions. The system throughput is determined by some stations using low transmission rates due to bad channel conditions. CARA algorithm does not disturb the existing IEEE 802.11b formats and it can be easily incorporated into the commercial wireless local area networks (WLAN) devices. Finally, we verify our findings with simulation.展开更多
In this paper, we propose an aware-based adaptive opportunistic retransmission control scheme for wireless multimedia Mesh networks. The proposed scheme provides maximum retransmis-sion count optimization based on env...In this paper, we propose an aware-based adaptive opportunistic retransmission control scheme for wireless multimedia Mesh networks. The proposed scheme provides maximum retransmis-sion count optimization based on environment-aware to improve packet relay probability. The scheme discriminates the types of packet loss in wireless link by means of environment information and selects the retransmission count by taking the IEEE 802.11 wireless channel characteristics into consideration. Furthermore, the maximum retransmission count of MAC is adjusted adaptively. Extensive simulations demonstrate that the proposed scheme significantly reduces packet collision probability and packet loss rate, and thus improves network throughput.展开更多
In Cognitive Radio(CR) networks,CR user has to detect the spectrum channel periodically to make sure that the channel is idle during data transmission frame in order to avoid the collisions to the primary users.Hence ...In Cognitive Radio(CR) networks,CR user has to detect the spectrum channel periodically to make sure that the channel is idle during data transmission frame in order to avoid the collisions to the primary users.Hence recent research has been focused on the interference avoidance problem.Quality of Service(QoS) requirement of CR user will affect the time of data transmission in each frame.In this paper,in order to solve the interference avoidance and spectrum utilization problems without cooperation among CR users,a new scheme to obtain the optimal duration of data transmission frame is proposed to maximize the spectrum utilization and guarantee the protection to the primary users.The main advantages of our proposed scheme include the followings:(1) QoS requirement of CR user is concerned;(2) p-persistent Media Access Control(MAC) random access is used to avoid the collisions among CR users;(3) CR network system capacity is considered.We develop a Markov chain of the primary spectrum channel states and an exponential distribution of the CR user's traffic model to analyze the performance of our proposed scheme.Computer simulation shows that there is an optimal data transmission time to maximize the spectrum utilization.However,the regulatory constraint of the collision rate to the primary users has to be satisfied at the expense of spectrum utilization.And also the tradeoff between the spectrum utilization and the capacity of the CR system is taken into account.展开更多
This paper introduces architectures of two types optical packet switched metropolitan area networks and their media access control protocols. We have designed related network simulation systems. With these simulation...This paper introduces architectures of two types optical packet switched metropolitan area networks and their media access control protocols. We have designed related network simulation systems. With these simulation systems, the characteristics and performance of the two MANs can be achieved.展开更多
With the increasing attention to front-edge vehicular communication applications,distributed resource allocation is beneficial to the direct communications between vehicle nodes.However,in highly dynamic distributed v...With the increasing attention to front-edge vehicular communication applications,distributed resource allocation is beneficial to the direct communications between vehicle nodes.However,in highly dynamic distributed vehicular networks,quality of service(QoS)of the systems would degrade dramatically because of serious packet collisions in the absence of sufficient link knowledge.Focusing on the fairness optimization,a Q-learning-based collision avoidance(QCA)scheme,which is characterized by an ingenious bidirectional backoff reward model RQCA corresponding to arbitrary backoff stage transitions,has been proposed in an intelligent distributed media access control protocol.In QCA,an intelligent bidirectional backoff agent based on the Markov decision process model can actively motivate each vehicle agent to update itself toward an optimal backoff sub-intervel BSIopt through either positive or negative bidirectional transition individually,resulting in the distinct fair communication with a proper balance of the resource allocation.According to the reinforcement learning theory,the problem of goodness evaluation on the backoff stage self-selection policy is equal to the problem of maximizing Q function of the vehicle in the current environment.The final decision on BSI_(opt) related to an optimal contention window range was solved through maximizing the Q value or Q_(max).The ε-greedy algorithm was used to keep a reasonable convergence of the Q_(max) solution.For the fairness evaluation of QCA,four kinds of dynamic impacts on the vehicular networks were investigated:mobility,density,payload size,and data rate with a network simulator NS2.Consequently,QCA can achieve fair communication efficiently and robustly,with advantages of superior Jain’s fairness index,relatively high packet delivery ratio,and low time delay.展开更多
The growth in wireless technologies applications makes the necessity of providing a reliable communication over wireless networks become obvious.Guaranteeing real time communication in wireless medium poses a signific...The growth in wireless technologies applications makes the necessity of providing a reliable communication over wireless networks become obvious.Guaranteeing real time communication in wireless medium poses a significant challenge due to its poor delivery reliability.In this study,a recovery and redundancy model based on sequential time division multiple access(S-TDMA)for wireless communication is developed.The media access control(MAC)layer of the S-TDMA determines which station should transmit at a given time slot based on channel state of the station.Simulations of the system models were carried out using MATLAB SIMULINK software.SIMULINK blocks from the signal processing and communication block sets were used to model the communication system.The S-TDMA performance is evaluated with total link reliability,system throughput,average probability of correct delivery before deadline and system latency.The evaluation results displayed in graphs when compared with instant retry and drop of frame were found to be reliable in recovering loss packets.展开更多
One of the most important challenges in the Wireless Sensor Networks is to improve the performance of the network by extending the lifetime of the sensor nodes. So the focus is on obtaining a trade-off between minimiz...One of the most important challenges in the Wireless Sensor Networks is to improve the performance of the network by extending the lifetime of the sensor nodes. So the focus is on obtaining a trade-off between minimizing the delay involved and reducing the energy consumption of the sensor nodes which directly translate to an extended lifetime of the sensor nodes. An effective Sleep-wake scheduling mechanism can prolong the lifetime of the sensors by eliminating idle power listening, which could result in substantial delays. To counter this, an anycast forwarding scheme that could forward the packet opportunistically to the first awaken node may result in retransmissions as if the chosen node falls in resource constraints. The algorithm, namely Prim’s-Dual is proposed to solve the said problem. The algorithm considers five crucial parameters, namely the residual energy of the nodes, transmission power, receiving power, packet loss rate, interference from which the next hop is determined to extend the lifetime of the sensor node. Since the proposed work is framed keeping critical event monitoring in mind, the sleep-wake scheduling is modified as low-power, high-power scheduling where all nodes are in low-power and the nodes needed for data transmission are respectively turned on to high-power mode. The integrated framework provides several opportunities for performance enhancement for conflict-free transmissions. The aim of our algorithm is to show reliable, energy efficient transfer without compromising on lifetime and delay. The further effectiveness of the protocol is verified. The results demonstrate that the proposed protocol can efficiently handle network scalability with acceptable latency and overhead.展开更多
基金Supported by the 948 Project (2012-4-21)the Ph.D.Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(20100062120008)the Scientific Research Fund of Heilongjiang Provincial Education Department(11553022)
文摘In view of the problem that existing Media Access Control(MAC) protocols can not pro-vide real-time monitor on network conditions,this paper puts forward a new MAC protocol- Predict and Feedback MAC(PFMAC) which can predict the channel's congestion level reasonably.The dominant idea of the new scheme is to record the channel's busy or idle situation in the backoff stage by sending Sensor Nodes(SNs),and according to the congestion level every SN can change the contention window adaptively when send packets successfully to minimize collisions,saving energy and channel resources.The result of simulation shows that compared with other MAC protocols,the PFMAC protocol can improve network throughput and reduce energy consumption in high speed network en-vironment.
基金Project supported by the Science Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology (Grant No.045115012), and the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No.T0102).
文摘This paper proposes a novel multichannel medium access control (MAC) protocol based on CDMA that improves network performance and reduces collision probability in wireless ad hoc networks. In the scheme, the code channel is divided into common channel, broadcast channel and several data channels. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol can achieve significantly better performance than the IEEE 802.11 standard.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(61304263,61233007)the Cross-disciplinary Collaborative Teams Program for Science,Technology and Innovation of Chinese Academy of Sciences-Network and System Technologies for Security Monitoring and Information Interaction in Smart Arid
文摘Wireless networking in cyber-physical systems(CPSs) is characteristically different from traditional wireless systems due to the harsh radio frequency environment and applications that impose high real-time and reliability constraints.One of the fundamental considerations for enabling CPS networks is the medium access control protocol. To this end, this paper proposes a novel priority-aware frequency domain polling medium access control(MAC) protocol, which takes advantage of an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access(OFDMA)physical layer to achieve instantaneous priority-aware polling.Based on the polling result, the proposed work then optimizes the resource allocation of the OFDMA network to further improve the data reliability. Due to the non-polynomial-complete nature of the OFDMA resource allocation, we propose two heuristic rules,based on which an efficient solution algorithm to the OFDMA resource allocation problem is designed. Simulation results show that the reliability performance of CPS networks is significantly improved because of this work.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61771186)Outstanding Youth Project of Heilongjiang Natural Science Foundation(No.YQ2020F012)Undergraduate University Project of Young Scientist Creative Talent of Heilongjiang Province(No.UNPYSCT-2017125)。
文摘The mobility of the targets asks for high requirements of the locating speed in indoor positioning systems.The standard medium access control(MAC)algorithm will often cause lots of packet conflicts and high transmission delay if multiple users communicate with one beacon at the same time,which will severely limit the speed of the system.Therefore,an optimized MAC algorithm is proposed based on channel reservation to enable users to reserve beacons.A frame threshold is set to ensure the users with shorter data frames do not depend on the reservation mechanism,and multiple users can achieve packets switching with relative beacon in a fixed sequence by using frequency division multiplexing technology.The simulation results show that the optimized MAC algorithm proposed in this paper can improve the positioning speed significantly while maintaining the positioning accuracy.Moreover,the positioning accuracy can be increased to a certain extent if more channel resources can be obtained,so as to provide effective technical support for the location and tracking applications of indoor moving targets.
基金National Natural Science Foundations of China(Nos.60872073,6097501,and 51075068)the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China(No.20110092130004)the Research Foundation and Education Bureau of Anhui Province of China(No.KJ2009B137)
文摘Medium access control( MAC) protocol of underwater acoustic communication network is a key technology for underwater acoustic networks( UANs). Most of the MAC protocols for wireless terrestrial communication networks have been designed with negligible propagation delay. If it is deployed directly in an underwater environment,the UANs will perform inefficiently. In this paper,the characteristics of underwater acoustic channel are modeled and simulated by using the OPNET simulation tool,which are the speed of sound, propagation loss, and four sources for ambient noise: the turbulence,shipping,wind driven waves and thermal noise. The performance of pure Aloha( P-Aloha),carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance( CSMA / CA) and multiple access collision avoidance for wireless local area network( MACAW) protocols in underwater acoustic channel environment are evaluated. The different performance of protocols in underwater environment is compared in the simulation.
基金supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center)support program supervised by the NIPA(National IT Industry Promotion Agency)under Grant No.NIPA-2011-(C1090-1121-0002)
文摘In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of key energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). At the outset, we outline the crucial attributes of a good MAC protocol for WBAN. Several sources that contribute to the energy inefficiency of WBAN are identified, and features of the various MAC protocols qualitatively compared. Then, we further investigate some representative TDMA-based energy-efficient MAC protocols for WBAN by emphasizing their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, we conclude with a number of open research issues with regard to WBAN MAC layer.
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFC0308500)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61901273,11774074,61771152,U1806201 and 11974090)+1 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China(No.YQ2019F002)Acoustic Science and Technology Laboratory,Science and Technology on Underwater Information and Control Laboratory,and by the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship by CAST.
文摘Traditional underwater acoustic communication networks(UACNs)generally use omnidirectional transmission technology that causes a large number of data-packet collisions,thus resulting in low network throughput and high end-to-end delays.Compared with omnidirectional transmission technology,directional technology only sends and receives data packets in a specified direction.This can significantly reduce the probability of collisions and improve network performance.However,it also causes a deafness problem,which occurs when the sending node sends a data packet to the receiving node but the receiving node is unable to reply to the sender,because its antenna beam is closed.To resolve this issue,this study proposes a collision classification media access control(CC-MAC)protocol for UACNs.With this protocol,the underwater acoustic channel is divided into two subchannels,and the nodes transmit corresponding data types on them.The sending node can estimate the current status of the receiving node(i.e.,no collision,normal collision,deafness)according to the type of the data packet received and the sub-channel it arrived on,and it can choose correct options to improve network efficiency.Finally,we verify the performance of CC-MAC via simulations,showing that the protocol achieved higher network throughput and lower end-toend delays.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90612014)the National High-Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)(2006AA01Z101)
文摘According to analyze the facade phenomenon of wire-less sensor networks(WSNs),this paper proposes a feasible method to state clearly and improve the power control efficiency of wire-less sensor networks(WSNs). One of the crucial problems for WSNs is the design of medium access control (MAC) protocol. Our method want to adjust the activities of the MAC protocols control to achieve the enery conservation when the wireless communication module of sensor nodes is running, which is the major consumer of energy consumed by sensors energy. The energy efficiency of MAC protocol makes a strong impact on the network performance. To some extent,our research work describes and analyze the sources of energy consumption in MAC layer and simultaneously present an optimal method for the design of MAC protocol. Then we discusses some factors impacting on the performance of MAC protocol and metrics of performance evaluation. Eventually, the coming research direction is summarized.
基金supported by a research grant from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council(NSERC)under grant No.CRDPJ 419147-11Care In Motion Inc.,Canada
文摘Wireless body area networks (WBANs) can provide low-cost, timely healthcare services and are expected to be widely used for e-healthcare in hospitals. In a hospital, space is often limited and multiple WBANs have to coexist in an area and share the same channel in order to provide healthcare services to different patients. This causes severe interference between WBANs that could significantly reduce the network throughput and increase the amount of power consumed by sensors placed on the body. There-fore, an efficient channel-resource allocation scheme in the medium access control (MAC) layer is crucial. In this paper, we devel-op a centralized MAC layer resource allocation scheme for a WBAN. We focus on mitigating the interference between WBANs and reducing the power consumed by sensors. Channel and buffer state are reported by smartphones deployed in each WBAN, and channel access allocation is performed by a central controller to maximize network throughput. Sensors have strict limitations in terms of energy consumption and computing capability and cannot provide all the necessary information for channel allocation in a timely manner. This deteriorates network performance. We exploit the temporal correlation of the body area channel in order to minimize the number of channel state reports necessary. We view the network design as a partly observable optimization prob-lem and develop a myopic policy, which we then simulate in Matlab.
基金The manuscript APC is supported by the grant name(UMS No.DFK2005)“Smart Vertical farming Technology for Temperate vegetable cultivation in Sabah:practising smart automation system using IR and AI technology in agriculture 4.0”.
文摘IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi networks are prone to many denial of service(DoS)attacks due to vulnerabilities at the media access control(MAC)layer of the 802.11 protocol.Due to the data transmission nature of the wireless local area network(WLAN)through radio waves,its communication is exposed to the possibility of being attacked by illegitimate users.Moreover,the security design of the wireless structure is vulnerable to versatile attacks.For example,the attacker can imitate genuine features,rendering classificationbased methods inaccurate in differentiating between real and false messages.Althoughmany security standards have been proposed over the last decades to overcome many wireless network attacks,effectively detecting such attacks is crucial in today’s real-world applications.This paper presents a novel resource exhaustion attack detection scheme(READS)to detect resource exhaustion attacks effectively.The proposed scheme can differentiate between the genuine and fake management frames in the early stages of the attack such that access points can effectively mitigate the consequences of the attack.The scheme is built through learning from clustered samples using artificial neural networks to identify the genuine and rogue resource exhaustion management frames effectively and efficiently in theWLAN.The proposed scheme consists of four modules whichmake it capable to alleviates the attack impact more effectively than the related work.The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed technique by gaining an 89.11%improvement compared to the existing works in terms of detection.
文摘In this paper, we propose a mechanism named modified backoff (MB) mechanism to decrease the channel idle time in IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF). In the noisy channel, when signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is low, applying this mechanism in DCF greatly improves the throughput and lowers the channel idle time. This paper presents an analytical model for the performance study of IEEE 802.11 MB-DCF for nonsaturated heterogeneous traffic in the presence of transmission errors. First, we introduce the MB-DCF and compare its performance to IEEE 802.11 DCF with binary exponential backoff (BEB). The IEEE 802.11 DCF with BEB mechanism suffers from more channel idle time under low SNR. The MB-DCF ensures high throughput and low packet delay by reducing the channel idle time under the low traffic in the network. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, there are no previous works that enhance the performance of the DCF under imperfect wireless channel. We show through analysis that the proposed mechanism greatly outperforms the original IEEE 802.11 DCF in the imperfect channel condition. The effectiveness of physical and link layer parameters on throughput performance is explored. We also present a throughput investigation of the heterogeneous traffic for different radio conditions.
文摘This paper presents a mathematical model that analyzes the throughput of the IEEE 802.11b distributed coordination function (DCF) with the collision aware rate adaptation (CARA) algorithm. IEEE 802.11 WLANs provide multiple transmission rates to improve system throughput by adapting the transmission rate to the current channel conditions. The system throughput is determined by some stations using low transmission rates due to bad channel conditions. CARA algorithm does not disturb the existing IEEE 802.11b formats and it can be easily incorporated into the commercial wireless local area networks (WLAN) devices. Finally, we verify our findings with simulation.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60972038)the Jiangsu Province Universities Natural Science Research Key Grant Project (07KJA-51006)+1 种基金the Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University (N200911)Jiangsu Province Graduate In-novative Research Plan (CX09B_149Z)
文摘In this paper, we propose an aware-based adaptive opportunistic retransmission control scheme for wireless multimedia Mesh networks. The proposed scheme provides maximum retransmis-sion count optimization based on environment-aware to improve packet relay probability. The scheme discriminates the types of packet loss in wireless link by means of environment information and selects the retransmission count by taking the IEEE 802.11 wireless channel characteristics into consideration. Furthermore, the maximum retransmission count of MAC is adjusted adaptively. Extensive simulations demonstrate that the proposed scheme significantly reduces packet collision probability and packet loss rate, and thus improves network throughput.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61171094,61001077,61071092)973 Program(2007 CB310607)National Science & Technology Key Project (2011ZX03001-006-02,2011ZX03005-004-03)
文摘In Cognitive Radio(CR) networks,CR user has to detect the spectrum channel periodically to make sure that the channel is idle during data transmission frame in order to avoid the collisions to the primary users.Hence recent research has been focused on the interference avoidance problem.Quality of Service(QoS) requirement of CR user will affect the time of data transmission in each frame.In this paper,in order to solve the interference avoidance and spectrum utilization problems without cooperation among CR users,a new scheme to obtain the optimal duration of data transmission frame is proposed to maximize the spectrum utilization and guarantee the protection to the primary users.The main advantages of our proposed scheme include the followings:(1) QoS requirement of CR user is concerned;(2) p-persistent Media Access Control(MAC) random access is used to avoid the collisions among CR users;(3) CR network system capacity is considered.We develop a Markov chain of the primary spectrum channel states and an exponential distribution of the CR user's traffic model to analyze the performance of our proposed scheme.Computer simulation shows that there is an optimal data transmission time to maximize the spectrum utilization.However,the regulatory constraint of the collision rate to the primary users has to be satisfied at the expense of spectrum utilization.And also the tradeoff between the spectrum utilization and the capacity of the CR system is taken into account.
文摘This paper introduces architectures of two types optical packet switched metropolitan area networks and their media access control protocols. We have designed related network simulation systems. With these simulation systems, the characteristics and performance of the two MANs can be achieved.
文摘With the increasing attention to front-edge vehicular communication applications,distributed resource allocation is beneficial to the direct communications between vehicle nodes.However,in highly dynamic distributed vehicular networks,quality of service(QoS)of the systems would degrade dramatically because of serious packet collisions in the absence of sufficient link knowledge.Focusing on the fairness optimization,a Q-learning-based collision avoidance(QCA)scheme,which is characterized by an ingenious bidirectional backoff reward model RQCA corresponding to arbitrary backoff stage transitions,has been proposed in an intelligent distributed media access control protocol.In QCA,an intelligent bidirectional backoff agent based on the Markov decision process model can actively motivate each vehicle agent to update itself toward an optimal backoff sub-intervel BSIopt through either positive or negative bidirectional transition individually,resulting in the distinct fair communication with a proper balance of the resource allocation.According to the reinforcement learning theory,the problem of goodness evaluation on the backoff stage self-selection policy is equal to the problem of maximizing Q function of the vehicle in the current environment.The final decision on BSI_(opt) related to an optimal contention window range was solved through maximizing the Q value or Q_(max).The ε-greedy algorithm was used to keep a reasonable convergence of the Q_(max) solution.For the fairness evaluation of QCA,four kinds of dynamic impacts on the vehicular networks were investigated:mobility,density,payload size,and data rate with a network simulator NS2.Consequently,QCA can achieve fair communication efficiently and robustly,with advantages of superior Jain’s fairness index,relatively high packet delivery ratio,and low time delay.
文摘The growth in wireless technologies applications makes the necessity of providing a reliable communication over wireless networks become obvious.Guaranteeing real time communication in wireless medium poses a significant challenge due to its poor delivery reliability.In this study,a recovery and redundancy model based on sequential time division multiple access(S-TDMA)for wireless communication is developed.The media access control(MAC)layer of the S-TDMA determines which station should transmit at a given time slot based on channel state of the station.Simulations of the system models were carried out using MATLAB SIMULINK software.SIMULINK blocks from the signal processing and communication block sets were used to model the communication system.The S-TDMA performance is evaluated with total link reliability,system throughput,average probability of correct delivery before deadline and system latency.The evaluation results displayed in graphs when compared with instant retry and drop of frame were found to be reliable in recovering loss packets.
文摘One of the most important challenges in the Wireless Sensor Networks is to improve the performance of the network by extending the lifetime of the sensor nodes. So the focus is on obtaining a trade-off between minimizing the delay involved and reducing the energy consumption of the sensor nodes which directly translate to an extended lifetime of the sensor nodes. An effective Sleep-wake scheduling mechanism can prolong the lifetime of the sensors by eliminating idle power listening, which could result in substantial delays. To counter this, an anycast forwarding scheme that could forward the packet opportunistically to the first awaken node may result in retransmissions as if the chosen node falls in resource constraints. The algorithm, namely Prim’s-Dual is proposed to solve the said problem. The algorithm considers five crucial parameters, namely the residual energy of the nodes, transmission power, receiving power, packet loss rate, interference from which the next hop is determined to extend the lifetime of the sensor node. Since the proposed work is framed keeping critical event monitoring in mind, the sleep-wake scheduling is modified as low-power, high-power scheduling where all nodes are in low-power and the nodes needed for data transmission are respectively turned on to high-power mode. The integrated framework provides several opportunities for performance enhancement for conflict-free transmissions. The aim of our algorithm is to show reliable, energy efficient transfer without compromising on lifetime and delay. The further effectiveness of the protocol is verified. The results demonstrate that the proposed protocol can efficiently handle network scalability with acceptable latency and overhead.