Research on performance for UWB MAC protocol in the FCS application

UWB technology is ideally suited for the development of robust and rapid wireless industrial control networks (FCS) in complex and hostile industrial environments. The advances of UWB are that high data rates, low power consumption, precise ranging capabilities, resistance to multi-path fading, and penetration of dense objects. But, owing to a lot of short packets in the FCS applications and high channel acquisition time in UWB, the delay is larger than in other application. This paper studies the slot utilization of UWB MAC protocol in the different FCS application. Finally, we obtain quantitative data about the packets aggregating mechanism in FCS application by simulation. It will be useful to engineer and researchers to study on the FCS based on UWB.