HomeMAC: QoS-based MAC protocol for the home network

Author

Hwang, Won-Joo ; Wada, Makoto ; Tode, Hideki ; Murakami, Koso

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

407

Lastpage

414

Abstract

We believe that existing wire solutions such as Home-PNA2.0 and HomePlug and wireless solution such as HomeRF are the most promising solutions, because of its cost-effectiveness. However, MAC protocols of these solutions provide only class of service (CoS) using priority mechanism like HomePNA and HomePlug or consider only voice among real-time traffics like HomeRF For these reasons, we perceive the needs of the new MAC protocol which is no new wire solution and provides guaranteed quality of service (QoS) for not only voice but also video and audio. In light of this, we present the design and software implementation of a new MAC protocol for the home network called the HomeMAC. Our evaluation results of software implementation verify that HomeMAC can provide low delay and low jitter to the real-time traffic by reservation of the bandwidth.

Keywords

access protocols; delays; jitter; quality of service; radio networks; software architecture; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic; visual communication; voice communication; CSMA/CD; CoS; Home-PNA2.0; HomeMAC; HomePlug; HomeRF; MAC protocols; QoS guarantee; QoS-based MAC protocol; audio traffic; bandwidth reservation; class of service; home network; low delay; low jitter; priority mechanism; quality of service; real-time traffic; software architecture; software implementation; video traffic; voice traffic; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Delay; Home automation; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiple access; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2002. Proceedings. ISCC 2002. Seventh International Symposium on

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1671-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2002.1021708

Filename

1021708