Abstract
This paper reviews the research work done on the Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Controller Area Network (WCAN). The controller area network (CAN) has been long regarded as the pioneer in standardizing vehicle bus standard. Its influence has even been reached out to various applications in industrial automation; which includes military, aviation, electronics and many others. With wireless technology becoming more pervasive, there is also a need for CAN too to migrate and evolve to its wireless counterpart [1]. A few methods were proposed in the last decade [2-6] that utilized the advantageous of CAN into a wireless network system called wireless controller area network (WCAN). This paper reviews these approaches of WCAN.
Highlights
The wireless controller area network (WCAN) is a new approach of using CAN message-based protocol in wireless network
In [2], the contention based protocol using the Request To Send/Clear To Send (RTS/CTS) mechanism is applied with priority considerations to manage concurrency
The discussion of the WCAN using token scheme and WCAN using RTS/CTS scheme is presented in detail
Summary
The wireless controller area network (WCAN) is a new approach of using CAN message-based protocol in wireless network. The authors in [5,6], propose Remote Frame MAC (RFMAC) and Wireless MAC (WMAC) protocols to be operated in both centralized and distributed WCAN networks. The token defines the ring network by setting the successor and predecessor fields present in each node Following this scheme, the WCAN presented in [1], is a wirelessbased distributed medium access control (MAC) protocol for ad-hoc networks. The WCAN with token scheme has greater end-to-end delay when compared to WLAN in a ring, because in token scheme the message has to be relayed by all the nodes in the ring, while this is not the case in WLAN, where the advantage of mesh network is utilized
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