On the MAC protocols for Radio over Fiber indoor networks

Author

Dang, Bao Linh ; Prasad, R. Venkatesha ; Niemegeers, Ignas

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng., Math., Comput. Sci. Fac., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2006

fDate

10-11 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

117

Abstract

Radio over fiber (RoF) techniques have been long recognized as the promising solution for indoor networking at millimeter-wave bands. We discuss the possible deployment scenarios of a RoF network for indoor environment. In this paper, we try to find the answer to the question as to which medium access control (MAC) protocol is suitable for an RoF network. To substantiate our claims, performance analysis of two popular MAC protocols employing RoF EEE 802.11 representing the distributed control protocol family and ETSI HiperLAN/2 representing the centralized family - is presented. We show that RoF techniques can be applied to both protocols. We also show that the centralized control protocol is an appropriate candidate for RoF networks. This study is expected to contribute to the speedy deployment of RoF for indoor network deployment.

Keywords

access protocols; indoor radio; radio-over-fibre; wireless LAN; ETSI HiperLAN/2; IEEE 802.11; MAC protocols; distributed control protocol; indoor networking; medium access control protocol; millimeter-wave bands; radio over fiber; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Centralized control; Media Access Protocol; Millimeter wave technology; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Propagation delay; Timing; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Electronics, 2006. ICCE '06. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hanoi

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0568-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0569-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCE.2006.350850

Filename

4156501