基于MEC服务器优先服务的路侧单元MAC层调度策略

针对多接入边缘计算(MEC)服务器高可靠、低时延和大数据量的数据传输要求,基于无冲突接入、优先级架构和弹性服务技术,提出一种适用于车辆边缘计算场景下的媒体访问控制(MAC)调度策略。所提策略由车联网(IoV)路侧单元(RSU)集中协调信道接入权,优先确保车载网络中车载通信单元(OBU)与MEC服务器之间的链路传输质量,以及时传输车辆到网络(V2N)业务数据;同时,对本地OBU之间的业务采取弹性服务方式,增强密集车辆接入时应急消息传输的可靠性。首先,构建调度策略的排队分析模型;其次,根据各时刻系统状态变量的无后效性特点建立嵌入式马尔可夫链,并通过概率母函数的分析方法对系统进行理论分析,得到MEC服务器通信单元和OBU的平均排队队长、平均等待时延和RSU查询周期等关键指标的精确解析表达式。计算机仿真实验结果表明,统计分析结果与理论计算结果一致,所提调度策略在高负载情况下能够提高IoV的稳定性和灵活性。

无人机群自组网MAC协议综述

近年来,无人机群自组网(UAV Swarm Ad Hoc Network,UAVSNet)的单个UAV不断自主化与智能化,但UAV之间的协同通信仍存在挑战。媒体接入控制(Media Access Control,MAC)协议是其关键技术之一,并成为了新的研究热点。通过概述MAC协议的分类及设计要点,对竞争类MAC协议、非竞争类MAC协议以及混合类MAC协议接入机制、性能表现及不足进行详细综述并提出展望。为UAVSNet的MAC协议的研究和应用提供了理论支持。

QoS-based MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks

In order to improve the throughput performance of the secondary users （SUs） in the cognitive radio （CR） environment, a quality of service （QoS） based media access control （MAC） protocol is proposed. In this protocol, the CR node maps the channel state as a vector, and the transmitter and the receiver obtain the final channel map through an AND operation to prepare for an optional channel set. Data from the upper application layer are classified into two priority levels according to the QoS requirement. The data of each level relate to different contention windows so that the priority of real time data can be guaranteed. A two-dimensional discrete-time Markov chain is utilized to evaluate the system performance, and mathematical expressions of the system throughput are derived. Simulation results show that compared with the IEEE 802. 11 distributed coordination function （DCF）, the proposed MAC protocol can achieve higher throughput.

A NOVEL PFMAC PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK BASED ON PREDICTION AND FEEDBACK METHOD

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.

A new multi-channel MAC protocol based on CDMA for ad hoc networks

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.

Modeling and Simulation of P-Aloha,CSMA /CA and MACAW Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Channel

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.

Performance Analysis of MAC Protocol for LEO Satellite Networks

Considering that weak channel collision detection ability, long propagation delay and heavy load in LEO satellite communications, a valid adaptive APRMA MAC protocol was proposed. Different access probability functions for different services were obtained and appropriate access probabilities for voice and data users were updated slot by slot based on the estimation of the voice traffic and the channel status. In the proposed MAC protocol limited wireless resource is allocated reasonably by multiple users and high capacity was achieved. Three performance parameters: voice packet loss probability, average delay of data packets and throughput of data packets were considered in simulation. Finally simulation results demonstrated that the performance of system was improved by the APRMA compared with the conventional PRMA, with an acceptable trade-off between QoS of voice and delay of data.

A Priority-aware Frequency Domain Polling MAC Protocol for OFDMA-based Networks in Cyber-physical Systems

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. © 2014 Chinese Association of Automation.

基于LoRaWAN无线抄表应用场景的MAC层协议设计

LoRaWAN协议上行采用纯ALOHA(Pure ALOHA,P-ALOHA)的方式发送数据,信道碰撞率高且利用率低,不适合用于无线抄表等应用场景。针对LoRaWAN协议的局限性,提出了一种适合于无线抄表应用场景的介质访问控制(Media Access Control, MAC)层协议。该MAC层协议设计了超帧的结构,采用时隙ALOHA(Slot ALOHA,S-ALOHA)协议与时分多址(Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA)协议相结合的混合式接入机制,并在信道上融入突发业务,节点可以根据TDMA时隙的使用情况,灵活决定用于竞争的时隙;设计了将节点分散到一个超帧的不同复帧发送数据的方法;利用超帧的结构,能使具有不同发送周期的节点在同一个信道上工作;根据功能需求对帧结构进行了改进。仿真结果表明,与P-ALOHA协议相比,该MAC层协议能很好地降低碰撞率,提高信道利用率,并且能很好地解决因大量节点同时发送数据而造成的信道瘫痪问题。

Exploration of Energy Conservation MAC Protocol of WSNs for Ubiquitous Environment

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.

REA-MAC:A low latency routing-enhanced asynchronous duty-cycle MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks

Many energy efficiency asynchronous duty-cycle MAC(media access control) protocols have been proposed in recent years.However,in these protocols,wireless sensor nodes almost choose their wakeup time randomly during the operational cycle,which results in the packet delivery latency increased significantly on the multiple hops path.To reduce the packet delivery latency on multi-hop path and energy waste of the sender's idle listening,a new low latency routing-enhanced asynchronous duty-cycle MAC protocol was presented,called REA-MAC.In REA-MAC,each sensor node decided when it waked up to send the beacon based on cross-layer routing information.Furthermore,the sender adaptively waked up based on the relationship between the transmission request time and the wakeup time of its next hop node.The simulation results show that REA-MAC reduces delivery latency by 60% compared to RI-MAC and reduces 8.77% power consumption on average.Under heavy traffic,REA-MAC's throughput is 1.48 times of RI-MAC's.

Distributed multichannel medium access control protocol without common control channel for single-hop cognitive radio networks

A novel distributed cognitive radio multichannel medium access protocol without common control channel was proposed.The protocol divided a transmission interval into two parts for exchanging control information and data,respectively.In addition to evaluating system saturation throughput of the proposed protocol,a three-dimensional multi channel Markov chain model to describe the sate of the cognitive users (CUs) in dynamic spectrum access was presented.The proposed analysis was applied to the packet transmission schemes employed by the basic,RTS/CTS access mechanism adopted in the normal IEEE 802.11.Analyzing the advantage of the two methods,a hybrid access mechanism was proposed to improve the system throughput.The simulation results show that the experiment results are close to the value computed by the model (less than 5%),and the proposed protocol significantly improves the performance of the system throughput by borrowing the licensed spectrum.By analyzing the dependence of throughput on system parameters,hybrid mechanism dynamically selecting access mechanism can maintain high throughput.

Collision Classification MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks Using Directional Antennas

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.

A DUAL RESERVATION CDMA-BASED MAC PROTOCOL WITH POWER CONTROL FOR AD HOC NETWORKS

This paper proposes a new multi-channel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol named as Dual Reservation Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) based MAC protocol with Power Control (DRCPC). The code channel is divided into common channel,broadcast channel and several data chan-nels. And dynamic power control mechanism is implemented to reduce near-far interference. Compared with IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) protocol,the results show that the pro-posed mechanism improves the average throughput and limits the transmission delay efficiently.

A Novel DSA-Driven MAC Protocol for Cognitive Radio Networks

With the deployment of more wireless applications, spectrum scarcity becomes an issue in many countries. Recent reports show that the reason for this spectrum shortage is the underutilization of some spectrum re-sources. Fortunately, the emergence of open spectrum and dynamic spectrum assess (DSA) technology in cognitive radio networks relieves this problem. In this paper, we propose a novel DSA-driven cognitive MAC protocol to achieve highly efficient spectrum usage and QoS provisioning. In the proposed protocol, secondary users are divided into several non-overlapping groups, and all leftover channels are allocated among groups taking the groups’ bandwidth requirements into consideration. Moreover, the allocation of vacant channels can be adjusted dynamically when members join/leave groups or primary users return/leave the current network. Simulations show that the proposed MAC protocol greatly improves the quality of ser-vice for secondary users and maximizes the utilization ratio of spectrum resources.

一种REB&PMDS的无线MAC协议

针对分散无线网络的媒质访问控制,提出了一种新的MAC算法;算法根据几何分布采用随机长度的突发来重复消除信道访问节点,其中每个发送节点能够在每个时隙中执行载波侦听操作或执行一个短突发或干扰发送;计算了在单次消除和重复消除中n个节点中有m个节点在消除阶段存活下来的概率以及重复消除中一个节点成为唯一获胜者的概率;并基于基本优先级向量提出了一种实现差异化服务的相对优先级机制,从而提高整个网络的信道总利用率;仿真实验结果表明,提出的协议算法相比于目前广泛采用的几种MAC协议在信道接入成功率、信道利用率和信道分配公平性方面都有明显的优势。

高吞吐量低时延太赫兹超高速无线网络MAC接入协议

针对现有能够应用于太赫兹超高速无线网络的能量和频谱感知的媒介接入控制(energy and spectrum-aware media access control,ES-MAC)及IEEE802.15.3c协议存在的时隙申请量未及时更新、超帧结构不合理及分配时隙时未合并同一对节点之间的时隙请求等问题,提出了一种高吞吐量低时延MAC(high throughput low delay MAC,HLMAC)协议。通过设计一种新的超帧结构,使节点及时得到时隙分配信息,大大降低数据接入时延;通过更新时隙请求量和合并同一对节点的时隙请求,增加了数据发送量,提高了网络吞吐量。理论分析表明了HLMAC协议的有效性,仿真结果显示它比ES-MAC协议增加了65.7%的网络吞吐量,同时降低了30%的接入时延。

一种适用于无线传感器网络的功率控制MAC协议

功率控制技术通过减少节点的发射功率来降低能耗,但节点间不对称的发射功率会增加网络的冲突概率并降低吞吐量.根据实际环境中的节点部署情况,引入了基于Pareto分布的系统模型.研究了传感器网络中功率控制技术在节省能量方面的性能,提出了一种基于SMAC(sensor-MAC)可适用于无线传感器网络的功率控制MAC(media access control)协议.此协议使用功率控制调度算法选择最优相邻节点,使网络中节点的拓扑连接得到优化,在保证网络连通性的同时,降低通信的冲突率,扩大网络的吞吐量.信息的传递以最优功率发射,并使通信节点具有反作用冲突节点的能力,从而在降低网络能耗的同时保证了节点间通信的公平性.实验仿真结果显示,与现有的几种重要方案相比,新的功率控制MAC协议使网络具有了更大的有效吞吐量及更长的生存时间.

一种动态占空比的无线传感器网络MAC协议

在无线传感器网络(WSN)中,降低能耗会引发端到端时延的增加。为兼顾能耗和时延的平衡,提出一种基于动态占空比的WSN介质访问控制协议。通过计算节点利用率、平均睡眠延时,结合占空比上下限,动态调整节点占空比,使其更好地适应网络实时通信流量。实验结果表明,该协议在线性拓扑中比S-MAC节能52%,延迟减少35%,在网状拓扑中比S-MAC节能68%,延迟减少46%。