Enhanced MAC layer protocol for millimeter wave based WPAN

Author

An, Xueli ; Zhang, Shuang ; Hekmat, Ramin

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Math., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The IEEE 802.15.3 standard defines a widely-accepted MAC layer protocol for high data rate WPANs. However, resource allocation schemes are not specified in the IEEE 802.15.3 MAC. In this paper, an enhanced IEEE 802.15.3 MAC is proposed for 60 GHz based WPANs. The enhancement relies on a novel resource management scheme. By exploiting the advanced features of the 60 GHz technology, e.g. the usage of direction antennas, our resource management scheme could realize spatial reuse TDMA in 60 GHz based WPANs. We have implemented our protocol in OPNET. Based on this simulation platform we have evaluated the advantages of using our additions to the IEEE 802.15.3 MAC. We show that our enhanced MAC protocol significantly improves the throughput and delay characteristics in 60 GHz based WPANs.

Keywords

access protocols; directive antennas; personal area networks; IEEE 802.15.3 standard; OPNET; enhanced MAC layer protocol; frequency 60 GHz; millimeter wave based WPAN; optimized network engineering tools; resource allocation scheme; wireless personal area networks; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Media Access Protocol; Millimeter wave technology; Performance analysis; Physical layer; Resource management; Signal to noise ratio; Streaming media; Time division multiple access; 60 GHz; MAC; WPAN; directional antennas; resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2008. PIMRC 2008. IEEE 19th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cannes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2643-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2644-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2008.4699641

Filename

4699641