Performance Evaluation of Optimized Medium Access Control Schemes Based on Ultra Wideband Technology

Author

Bacci, Vanni ; Chiti, Francesco ; Morosi, Simone ; Haapola, Jussi ; Shelby, Zach

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Florence Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper we evaluate the energy, event delivery, and delay performance of a number of medium access control protocols suitable for ultra-wideband (UWB) physical layer. While ultra-wideband is a promising technology, it creates unique challenges in MAC protocol design. Firstly, we analytically inspect the energy consumption of three UWB suitable MAC protocols and secondly concentrate on simulation of the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC and its UWB version. Comparison between UWB and direct sequence radios with the 802.15.4 MAC protocol clearly show the superior performance of UWB technology

Keywords

access protocols; personal area networks; ultra wideband communication; IEEE 802.15.4 MAC; MAC protocol; UWB physical layer; optimized medium access control schemes; ultra wideband technology; Access protocols; Analytical models; Delay; Energy consumption; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Physical layer; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2006 IEEE 17th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0329-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0330-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2006.254449

Filename

4022607