FRAME LENGTH DESIGN FOR MULTIBAND-OFDM ULTRA WIDEBAND NETWORKS

Liaoyuan Zeng, Eduardo Cano, Michael Barry, Sean McGrath

2008

Abstract

A new design of the optimal MAC frame payload length for maximizing the saturation throughput of the Prioritized Contention Access (PCA) of the WiMedia Ultra Wideband (UWB) standard in Rayleigh fading channel is presented in this paper. In the WiMedia standard, the Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) is used as the basic physical scheme. The proposed design is based on the throughput analysis carried out by extending an original Enhanced Distributed Contention Access (EDCA) model for 802.11e into the MB-OFDM UWB protocol. The extended model considers the effects of the bit error rate, the transmission opportunity limits, and the uniqueness of WiMedia MAC timing structure. The station throughput is sensitive to the frame payload length, and the optimal frame payload length increases exponentially when the value of the signal-to-noise ratio is higher. The optimal payload length is independent of the number of the active stations, data rate, and the priority of the Access Categories (ACs). Therefore, a station can dynamically adapt the length of the transmitted frame in the MAC layer according to the current SNR level so as to maximize its saturation throughput in the MB-OFDM UWB network.

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in Harvard Style

Zeng L., Cano E., Barry M. and McGrath S. (2008). FRAME LENGTH DESIGN FOR MULTIBAND-OFDM ULTRA WIDEBAND NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-62-3, pages 113-120. DOI: 10.5220/0002024501130120


in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys08,
author={Liaoyuan Zeng and Eduardo Cano and Michael Barry and Sean McGrath},
title={FRAME LENGTH DESIGN FOR MULTIBAND-OFDM ULTRA WIDEBAND NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={113-120},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002024501130120},
isbn={978-989-8111-62-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2008)
TI - FRAME LENGTH DESIGN FOR MULTIBAND-OFDM ULTRA WIDEBAND NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8111-62-3
AU - Zeng L.
AU - Cano E.
AU - Barry M.
AU - McGrath S.
PY - 2008
SP - 113
EP - 120
DO - 10.5220/0002024501130120