Static Time Division Multiple Access Research Articles

Fairness Optimization of Fixed-Rate Wireless Networks With RF Energy Harvesting Transmitters

The letter proposes two simple and yet effective resource allocation schemes for wireless powered communication networks based on static time division multiple access (TDMA). The energy harvesting users (EHUs) do not have channel state information (CSI) available and transmit at fixed power and fixed rate to the base station (BS). In order to facilitate fairness, the network employs either the proportional fairness criterion or the max-min criterion for the EHUs’ rates by optimizing the key system parameters: the BS transmit power, the durations of energy harvesting and information transmission phases, and the EHU’s rates. Unlike the existing schemes that adapt the system parameters in each channel fading state, our proposed schemes are much simpler for practical implementation.

Reliability and Energy Efficiency Enhancement for Emergency-Aware Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)

Medium access control protocols based on time division multiple access (TDMA) can improve the reliability and efficiency of wireless body area network (WBAN). However, traditional static TDMA techniques adopted by IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6 do not sufficiently consider the channel status or the buffer requirements of the nodes within heterogeneous contexts. Although there are some solutions that have been proposed to alleviate the effect of the deep fade in WBAN channel by adopting dynamic slot allocation, these solutions still suffer from some reliability and energy efficiency issues and they do not avoid channel deep fading. This paper presents two novel and generic TDMA based techniques to improve WBAN reliability and energy efficiency. Both techniques synchronize nodes adaptively while tackling their channel and buffer status in normal and emergency contexts. Extensive simulation experiments using various traffic rates and time slot lengths demonstrate that the proposed techniques improve the reliability and the energy efficiency compared to IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.15.6 in both situations, the normal and emergency contexts. This improvement has been achieved in terms of packet loss, up to 90%, and energy consumption, up to 13%, confirming the significant enhancements made by the developed scheduling techniques.

Efficient 3-D Bus Architectures for Inductive-Coupling ThruChip Interfaces

Wireless 3-D network-on-chips (NoCs) with inductive-coupling ThruChip interfaces provide a large degree of flexibility for customizing the number of arbitrary chips in a package after chips have been fabricated. To simplify the vertical communication interfaces, static time division multiple access (TDMA) is used for the vertical broadcast buses, while arbitrary or customized topologies can be used for the intrachip network. This paper proposes two techniques to break through the simple static TDMA-based vertical buses while maintaining a simple communication interface. The first technique is headfirst sliding (HS) routing to reduce the waiting time for acquiring the communication time-slot. HS routing selects the best vertical bus based on the current time, taking advantage of static TDMA. The second technique extends carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) for vertical broadcast buses. We introduce a packet collision detection technique for inductive-coupling buses and propose two retransmission strategies to reduce the waiting time for packet retransmissions caused by collisions. Network simulation results show that HS routing reduces the communication latency by 39.1% compared with the conventional static TDMA bus-based 3-D NoC that uses the shortest path routing. The proposed CSMA/CD bus also improves the latency by 52.5% and throughput by 34.1%. The full-system simulation results show that HS routing and the proposed CSMA/CD technique reduce the application execution time accordingly while maintaining the average flit transfer energy overhead modest.

Link-16에서 이미지 전송을 위한 신뢰성 기반의 동적 TDMA 기법과 새로운 패킹 방법

Link-16은 가장 널리 사용 중인 전술데이터링크로써 TDMA(Time Division Multiple Access)를 기반으로 동작한다. Link-16은 안정적이지만 전송 속도가 매우 낮아 전술 메시지, 음성 등 작은 사이즈의 데이터 전송을 지원한다. 그러나 최근 효과중심작전(EBO: Effect-Based Operation)에 대한 관심이 증가하면서, Link-16을 통해 이미지와 같은 상황 인식 정보를 전송하려는 동향이 있다. 이미지는 기존 메시지에 비해 크기가 매우 크기 때문에 Link-16의 Static TDMA가 아닌 별도의 TDMA 스케줄링이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Link-16의 MAC을 진화시킨 Link-16K를 제안하였다. Link-16K는 Link-16과 호환성을 유지한다. 그리고 이미지 전송을 효과적으로 지원하기 위해 DTDMA(Dynamic TDMA), 새로운 재전송 방법, 새로운 패킹 방법을 포함한다. 제안하는 아이디어의 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 이미지 전송 시간이 단축되었고, 채널 효율성이 높아졌음을 확인하였다. Link-16 is a widely used TDL (Tactical Data Link) which uses TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access). Link-16 is a very low rate system, so it supports small size of data like tactical message and voice. However, there are related works to transmit situation awareness information like image due to the increasing interest about EBO(Effect-Based Operation), recently. Special TDMA scheduling is needed not static TDMA of Link-16 for image transmission because image data has much larger size than the existing tactical data. In this paper, we proposed Link-16K which enhances the Link-16 MAC. The proposed Link-16K is compatible with Link-16, and includes dynamic TDMA, new packing method, and an efficient retransmission scheme for image transmission effectively. We can see that image transmission delay is reduced and channel utilization is increased through simulation results of proposed idea.

E‐MAC: an elastic MAC layer for IEEE 802.11 networks

ABSTRACTWe present a system for real‐time traffic support in infrastructure and ad hoc IEEE 802.11 networks. The proposed elastic MAC (E‐MAC) protocol provides a distributed transmission schedule for stations with real‐time traffic requirements, while allowing a seamless coexistence with standard IEEE 802.11 clients, protecting best‐effort 802.11 traffic from starvation by means of admission control policies. Our scheduling decisions are based on an ‘elastic’ transmission opportunity (TXOP) assignment which allows for efficient wireless resource usage: whenever a real‐time station does not use the assigned TXOP, the other real‐time stations can take over the unused access opportunity, thus preventing the well‐known inefficiencies of static time division multiple access (TDMA) schemes. Unlike other TDMA‐based solutions for 802.11, E‐MAC does not require a tight synchronization among the participating clients, thus allowing its implementation on commodity WLAN hardware via minor software changes at the client side, and no changes at the access points (APs). We studied the performance of our mechanism via ns‐2 simulations and a mathematical model, showing that it outperforms IEEE 802.11e in terms of throughput, delay, and jitter. We finally provide a proof of concept through the results obtained in a real testbed where we implemented the E‐MAC protocol. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Multiuser OFDM with adaptive subcarrier, bit, and power allocation

Multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with adaptive multiuser subcarrier allocation and adaptive modulation is considered. Assuming knowledge of the instantaneous channel gains for all users, we propose a multiuser OFDM subcarrier, bit, and power allocation algorithm to minimize the total transmit power. This is done by assigning each user a set of subcarriers and by determining the number of bits and the transmit power level for each subcarrier. We obtain the performance of our proposed algorithm in a multiuser frequency selective fading environment for various time delay spread values and various numbers of users. The results show that our proposed algorithm outperforms multiuser OFDM systems with static time-division multiple access (TDMA) or frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) techniques which employ fixed and predetermined time-slot or subcarrier allocation schemes. We have also quantified the improvement in terms of the overall required transmit power, the bit-error rate (BER), or the area of coverage for a given outage probability.