A MAC protocol and a scheduling approach as elements of a lower layers architecture in wireless industrial LANs

Author

Willig, Andreas

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

1-3 Oct 1997

Firstpage

139

Lastpage

148

Abstract

The work-in-progress paper describes some elements of efforts in defining an architecture and an appropriate set of protocols for industrial local area networks (ILAN) with wireless communication media. The major focus is on lower layer protocols. The main elements are a description of data link layer services, a MAC protocol and a scheduling approach taking into consideration special properties of wireless media. The proposed MAC protocol is a variant of TDMA attacking its known problems. The goal of the link state dependent scheduling approach is to increase transmission efficiency over wireless links

Keywords

processor scheduling; production engineering computing; protocols; wireless LAN; MAC protocol; data link layer services; link state dependent scheduling approach; lower layer protocols; protocols; transmission efficiency; wireless communication media; wireless industrial LANs; wireless links; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Intelligent networks; Job shop scheduling; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Scheduling algorithm; Time division multiple access; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Factory Communication Systems, 1997. Proceedings. 1997 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4182-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFCS.1997.634293

Filename

634293