Abstract
A Distributed Meduim Access Control (D-MAC) protocol had been proposed to support High Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks (HR-WPANs) by the WiMedia Alliance. Unlike the centralized IEEE 802.15.3 MAC, the D-MAC UWB specified by WiMedia Alliance supports DRP (Distributed Reservation Protocol) mechanism which makes all devices be self-organized and removes the SOP (Simultaneous Operation Piconet) problem, i.e., packet collisions between overlapped piconets in the centralized IEEE 802.15.3 MAC. However, since each device's mobility perspective in multi-hop environment has not been taken into account in the current WiMedia D-MAC, it may cause a "mobile" hidden node problem. In addition, once a DRP conflict occurs due to the mobile hidden node problem, only one of the DRP reservations involved in that DRP conflict maintains the reserved MASs, while other DRP reservations must be terminated and DRP negotiations for them have to be restarted although only a few Mass are overlapped. Such DRP termination and renegotiation time delays due to the DRP conflicts can be a critical problem to the mobile devices transceiving real-time QoS traffic streams. Therefore, we propose a mecahnism to provent and resolve multi-hop range DRP conflicts due to each device's mobility in D-MAC environment.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 5505968 |
Pages (from-to) | 547-553 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2010 May |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:1This work was supported in part by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by Korea Government (KRF-2008-331-D00334) and in part 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" (NIPA-2009-C1090-0902-0010). Jin-Woo Kim is with the school of Electrical and Electronics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (e-mail: jjin300@gmail.com). *Kyeong Hur is the corresponding author with the Department of Computer Education, Gyeongin National University of Education, Incheon, Korea (e-mail: khur@ginue.ac.kr).
Keywords
- Distributed MAC
- Distributed Reservation Protocol (DRP)
- High Rate WPANs
- QoS
- UWB
- WiMedia
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Media Technology
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering