Abstract
Unslotted ALOHA has been often employed by several low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) for Internet of Things (IoT) as a random access (RA) protocol. This work analyzes the performance of unslotted ALOHA systems in terms of throughput and RA delay, and investigates their optimization. Our analysis consists of: 1) two-heterogeneous user case, whose backoff rate and packet length are different; 2) N -homogeneous user case, whose backoff rate and packet length are identical; and 3) homogeneous users of infinite population model. In the two-user case, we investigate the throughput region of unslotted ALOHA by using a multiobjective optimization problem (MOOP) and derive the Laplace Stieltjes transform (LST) of the probability density function (PDF) of RA delay. For N -homogeneous user case, we show how the throughput behaves according to the population size, packet length, and backoff rate. Our work may provide a comprehensive analytical framework for unslotted ALOHA systems.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 15800-15813 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | IEEE Internet of Things Journal |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 17 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 Sept 1 |
Keywords
- Access delay
- heterogeneous users
- pure ALOHA
- renewal theorem throughput
- unslotted ALOHA
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Information Systems
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Networks and Communications