Transmission Power Control Scheme Research Articles

EPCM – an efficient power controlled MAC protocol for mobile ad hoc network

To reduce interference and to save a significant amount of energy, a control of transmission power is employed in Mobile Ad hoc Network. Many researchers have reported numerous transmission power control schemes to achieve the objective. Some of those techniques use higher transmission power for control packets (Request To Send/Clear To Send) and lesser power for Data and ACK packets. These schemes, though save some amount of energy, achieve least aggregate throughput due to poor spatial reuse and hidden terminal interference. In this paper, an efficient Power Controlled Medium Access Control (EPCM) scheme is evinced, which uses uniform interference aware and minimum transmission power for both Control and Data packet. The performance of EPCM is evaluated and compared with three reported Medium Access Control protocols which are based on transmission power control schemes and is observed that the proposed protocol achieves better throughput and minimal energy consumption while avoiding the hidden terminal problem.

매크로셀 사용자 보호를 위한 펨토셀 기지국의 전송전력 제어

본 논문에서는 펨토셀을 채택한 셀룰러 통신망에서 매크로셀 사용자를 보호하기 위한 새로운 분산식 펨토셀 전송전력 제어 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에서, 인근의 펨토셀로부터 심한 간섭을 받는 매크로셀 사용자는 그 사실을 매크로셀 기지국을 통해 해당 펨토셀 기지국에게 알린다. 펨토셀 기지국은 전송전력을 감소시켜 매크로셀 사용자를 보호한다. 제안된 기법은 매크로셀 기지국, 매크로셀 사용자 및 펨토셀 기지국 간에 교환해야 할 제어 정보가 많지 않고, 펨토셀 기지국의 계산량이 적어서 구현이 용이한 장점을 가진다. 시뮬레이션 결과에 따르면, 제안된 기법은 그 단순함에도 불구하고 최소한의 펨토셀 사용자의 성능 열화를 대가로 탁월한 매크로셀 성능 향상을 달성한다. In the cellular networks adopting femtocells, the macrocell users can suffer from severe interference by the femtocells. In this paper, we propose a distributed transmission power control scheme for femtocells to protect macrocell users. With the proposed scheme, when a macrocell user experiences outage due to severe interference, it informs the interfering femtocell base station (BS) of the outage occurrence, via the macrocell BS. Then, the femtocell BS reduces the transmission power to protect the macrocell user. The proposed scheme does not require too much control information among the macrocell BS, the macrocell users, and the femtocell BS. Moreover, the computational complexity in femtocell BS is very low. By using simulation, we show that the performance of the proposed scheme is good enough to use in practice, in spite of its simplicity.

Decode-and-Forward Relay Beamforming for Secrecy with Finite-Alphabet Input

In this letter, we compute the secrecy rate of decode-and-forward (DF) relay beamforming with finite input alphabet of size M. Source and relays operate under a total power constraint. First, we observe that the secrecy rate with finite-alphabet input can go to zero as the total power increases, when we use the source power and the relay weights obtained assuming Gaussian input. This is because the capacity of an eavesdropper can approach the finite-alphabet capacity of \frac{1}{2}\log_2 M with increasing total power, due to the inability to completely null in the direction of the eavesdropper. We then propose a transmit power control scheme where the optimum source power and relay weights are obtained by carrying out transmit power (source power plus relay power) control on DF with Gaussian input using semi-definite programming, and then obtaining the corresponding source power and relay weights which maximize the secrecy rate for DF with finite-alphabet input. The proposed power control scheme is shown to achieve increasing secrecy rates with increasing total power with a saturation behavior at high total powers.

STPC 알고리즘을 이용한 VANET을 위한 전송파워 제어기법

본 논문은 차량 네트워크망의 성능개선을 위하여 교통류 모델을 이용한 STPC 알고리즘이 적용된 전송파워 제어기법을 제안한다. 교통량 혼잡 상태에서 차량 간의 전송파워는 메시지 충돌 확률을 증가시키며, 이는 차량 네트워크망의 성능저하 문제의 원인이 된다. 이를 해결하기 위하여, 제안된 전송파워 제어기법의 효용성을 증명하기 위하여 네트워크 모의실험 도구인 OPNet 모델러에서 원홉 지연, 패킷전송성공 확률 및 처리율을 분석하였다. 모의실험 결과를 살펴보면, 제안된 기법은 기존의 고정 전송파워를 적용한 기법보다 우수한 지연감소 효과를 보였고, 차량의 밀도가 높을 때 패킷전송 성공확률과 처리율은 향상되었다.

On the DMT of TDD-SIMO Systems with Channel-Dependent Reverse Channel Training

This paper investigates the Diversity-Multiplexing gain Trade-off (DMT) of a training based reciprocal Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) system, with (i) perfect Channel State Information (CSI) at the Receiver (CSIR) and noisy CSI at the Transmitter (CSIT), and (ii) noisy CSIR and noisy CSIT. In both the cases, the CSIT is acquired through Reverse Channel Training (RCT), i.e., by sending a training sequence from the receiver to the transmitter. A channel-dependent fixed-power training scheme is proposed for acquiring CSIT, along with a forward-link data transmit power control scheme. With perfect CSIR, the proposed scheme is shown to achieve a diversity order that is quadratically increasing with the number of receive antennas. This is in contrast with conventional orthogonal RCT schemes, where the diversity order is known to saturate as the number of receive antennas is increased, for a given channel coherence time. Moreover, the proposed scheme can achieve a larger DMT compared to the orthogonal training scheme. With noisy CSIR and noisy CSIT, a three-way training scheme is proposed and its DMT performance is analyzed. It is shown that nearly the same diversity order is achievable as in the perfect CSIR case. The time-overhead in the training schemes is explicitly accounted for in this work, and the results show that the proposed channel-dependent RCT and data power control schemes offer a significant improvement in terms of the DMT, compared to channel-agnostic orthogonal RCT schemes. The outage performance of the proposed scheme is illustrated through Monte-Carlo simulations.

Remaining Energy-Level-Based Transmission Power Control for Energy-Harvesting WSNs

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a transmission power control scheme based on the remaining energy level and the energy-harvesting status of individual sensor nodes to extend the overall lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and balance the energy usage. Ambient energy harvesting has been introduced as a promising technique to solve the energy constraint problem of WSNs. However, considering the tiny equipment and the inherent low and unbalanced harvesting capability due to environmental issues, there is still a long distance from perfectly solving the problem. In this paper, a wind and solar power joint-harvested WSN system has been demonstrated, which uses ultracapacitor as energy storage. By analyzing the power recharging, leakage, and energy consumption rate, a novel energy-level-based transmission power control scheme (EL-TPC) is produced. In EL-TPC scheme, the transmission power is classified into various levels according to the remaining energy level. By adapting the nodes' operation pattern, hierarchical network architecture can be formed, which prioritizes the use of high energy level, fast charging nodes to save the energy of uncharged nodes. The simulation and demonstration results show that EL-TPC scheme can significantly balance the energy consumption and extend the entire network lifetime.

Fuzzy logic-based transmission power control algorithm for energy efficient MAC protocol in wireless sensor networks

In this paper, we investigate the impact of a fuzzy logic control-based transmission power control in a wireless sensor network on the quality of service aspects like average power, energy efficiency, throughput and average end-to-end delay. The transmission power control algorithm is implemented in the medium access control layer as an enhancement for wireless MAC Standard IEEE 802.15.4. For a given fading channel, observations are made regarding received signal strength variations and link quality variations for different distances of separation between transmitter and receiver. The membership functions for the fuzzy logic are then formulated for efficient transmission power control. The transmission power of the source node along with the received signal strength indicator and link quality indicator values measured at the receiving node is used for deciding the required transmission power. The performance of this fuzzy logic-based transmission power control (FTPC_MAC) scheme is compared with the standard IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol (IEEE_MAC) and also with location prediction-based transmission power control (LPTPC_MAC). Analytical and simulation results show that fuzzy logic-based transmission power control performs better than the other two MAC protocols.

Transmission Power Control and Routing Strategy Based on Differential Games in Deep Space Exploration

The spectrum resource is a kind of scarce resource in the deep space exploration, the total bandwidth need for deep space communication is related to the required data rates, the number of spacecrafts, and the extent of spectrum frequency sharing. Future requirements of deep space communication may need to accommodate more spacecrafts within a particular band allocation, so the spread spectrum and multiple access techniques are widely used in deep space communications. And for the purpose of save power and reduce mutual interference, transmission power control may be introduced in the communication process. In this paper, a noncooperative differential game is proposed, and a power control algorithm is get from the equilibrium of the game, the results show that the algorithm can effectively reduce mutual interference, and also provide a way of route setup through relay nodes selection.

Distributed Power Allocation for Sink-Centric Clusters in Multiple Sink Wireless Sensor Networks

Due to the battery resource constraints, saving energy is a critical issue in wireless sensor networks, particularly in large sensor networks. One possible solution is to deploy multiple sink nodes simultaneously. Another possible solution is to employ an adaptive clustering hierarchy routing scheme. In this paper, we propose a multiple sink cluster wireless sensor networks scheme which combines the two solutions, and propose an efficient transmission power control scheme for a sink-centric cluster routing protocol in multiple sink wireless sensor networks, denoted as MSCWSNs-PC. It is a distributed, scalable, self-organizing, adaptive system, and the sensor nodes do not require knowledge of the global network and their location. All sinks effectively work out a representative view of a monitored region, after which power control is employed to optimize network topology. The simulations demonstrate the advantages of our new protocol.

Adjacency Matrix-Based Transmit Power Allocation Strategies in Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, we present an innovative transmit power control scheme, based on optimization theory, for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which use carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) with collision avoidance (CA) as medium access control (MAC) protocol. In particular, we focus on schemes where several remote nodes send data directly to a common access point (AP). Under the assumption of finite overall network transmit power and low traffic load, we derive the optimal transmit power allocation strategy that minimizes the packet error rate (PER) at the AP. This approach is based on modeling the CSMA/CA MAC protocol through a finite state machine and takes into account the network adjacency matrix, depending on the transmit power distribution and determining the network connectivity. It will be then shown that the transmit power allocation problem reduces to a convex constrained minimization problem. Our results show that, under the assumption of low traffic load, the power allocation strategy, which guarantees minimal delay, requires the maximization of network connectivity, which can be equivalently interpreted as the maximization of the number of non-zero entries of the adjacency matrix. The obtained theoretical results are confirmed by simulations for unslotted Zigbee WSNs.

APC-MAC/TA: Adaptive Power Controlled MAC Protocol with Traffic Awareness for Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, we propose an adaptive power controlled MAC protocol with a traffic-aware scheme specifically designed to reduce both energy and latency in wireless sensor networks. Typically, existing MAC protocols for sensor networks sacrifice latency performance for node energy efficiency. However, some sensor applications for emergencies require rather fast transmissions of sensed data, where we need to consider both energy and latency together. The proposed MAC protocol includes two novel ideas: one is a transmission power control scheme for improving latency in high traffic loads, and the other is a traffic-aware scheme to save more energy in low traffic loads. The transmission power control scheme increases channel utilization by mitigating interference between nodes, and the traffic-aware scheme allows nodes to sleep to reduce idle energy consumption when there are no traffic loads in a network. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol significantly reduces the latency as well as the energy consumption compared to the S-MAC protocol specifically for a large transmission power of nodes and low network traffic.

New Hidden Station Detection Scheme for Adaptive RTS/CTS Exchange in IEEE 802.11 WLANs

In IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), the hidden station problem can increase the collision probability and thus degrade the network throughput significantly. The Request-to-Send/Clear-to-Send (RTS/CTS) exchange may mitigate excessive collision due to hidden stations by reserving the channel before transmitting a data frame. However, it incurs significant bandwidth overhead if there is no hidden station. Although there has been a notable attempt to detect hidden stations so that the RTS/CTS exchange is activated only when hidden stations exist, the previous scheme fails to detect hidden stations if the stations have heterogeneous carrier sense ranges as in the real world. In this paper, we propose a new hidden station detection mechanism, which operates within the framework of our collision detection scheme. Therefore, stations can detect a hidden station without any extra cost while collision detection is being performed. In addition, we propose to transmit the RTS frames at a stronger power level than the nominal transmission power to improve the fairness of hidden stations further. We also propose a dynamic transmit power control strategy during the RTS transmission to mitigate the exposed station problem. Comprehensive simulations show that the adaptive RTS/CTS exchange based on the proposed scheme improves the system throughput as well as fairness in various environments including heterogeneous carrier sense ranges.

A Distributed Channel Access Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks with Feedback Power Control

Distributed power control schemes are extensively employed in the cellular networks and are capable of improving the capacity of the network. However, the power control schemes from the cellular networks suffer from performance degradation due to self and direct-interference and hidden-terminal problems when directly employed in ad hoc networks. Most of the existing channel reservation-based power control protocols for ad hoc networks employ incremental power allocation rather than global allocation of the power to the incoming links; thus, they may not effectively utilize the spatial frequency reuse in the network. This paper presents a distributed channel access protocol that couples the channel reservation and the iterative/global transmission power control schemes in ad hoc networks. The designed protocol considers the convergence problem of the global power control in ad hoc networks. The designed access criteria employ the local admission control based on the sufficient criteria for admissibility and global power control for balancing the SIR (signal to interference ratio) of the links. In the performance evaluation study of the designed protocol, an almost twofold increase in the throughput and capacity is observed compared to the existing power-controlled protocol for ad hoc networks.

Threshold Controlling Scheme for Adaptive Modulation and Coding System

Adaptive modulation and coding scheme (AMC) is an effective way to achieve high data rate communication. In AMC system, the key issue is to determine the rule for switching among different Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCSs). In this paper, adaptive threshold controlling scheme for AMC is proposed. The proposed scheme controls switching thresholds according to target block error rate. Simulation results have shown that the throughput performance of the proposed scheme is very close to the performance, which obtained by the optimum SIR thresholds. We also proposed downlink transmission power control (TPC) scheme suitable for AMC. The throughput of the lowest MCS is improved and the tranmission power of the highest MCS can be reduced with the proposed algorithm.

A 195-Gb/s 1.2-W Inductive Inter-Chip Wireless Superconnect With Transmit Power Control Scheme for 3-D-Stacked System in a Package

A wireless interface by inductive coupling achieves aggregated data rate of 195 Gb/s with power dissipation of 1.2W among 4-stacked chips in a package where 195 transceivers with the data rate of 1 Gb/s/channel are arranged in 50-/spl mu/m pitch in 0.25-/spl mu/m CMOS technology. By thinning chip thickness to 10/spl mu/m, the interface communicates at distance of 15 /spl mu/m at minimum and 43 /spl mu/m at maximum. A low-power single-end transmitter achieves 55% power reduction for multiple connections. The transmit power is dynamically controlled in accordance with communication distance to reduce not only power dissipation but also crosstalk.

Transmission Power Control using Small-Capacity UPFC under Output Voltage Saturation

This paper presents a fast transmission power control scheme using a UPFC (Unified Power Flow Controller) under the output voltage saturation. For practical use of the UPFC, the fast and stable power response and the reduced power converter capacity are desired. The authors propose the fast and stable control scheme under the output voltage saturation of the reduced capacity UPFC. The effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm of the UPFC has been verified by experiments.

A Study on Validity of Random Frame Error Assumption from the Viewpoint of TCP Performance in DS-CDMA Cellular System

Many reports have investigated TCP performance over wireless links, where a high and time-invariant frame error rate is assumed for cellular systems. However, the frame error rate is temporally and geographically changeable by fading and interference in cellular systems. On the other hand, SINR-based transmission power control, which is employed for the randomization of frame errors in DS-CDMA cellular systems, can not always work properly depending on the control parameters or the channel characteristics. In this paper, we investigate the TCP performance over the wireless links in a DS-CDMA cellular system by computer simulation. From the simulation results, it has been found that the assumption of random frame error is valid only for a part of the TCP performance even in the system with an SINR-based transmission power control scheme.

A Comparative Study of Predictive Transmit Power Control Schemes for S-UMTS

Transmit power control is indispensable in Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS/CDMA) based systems such as the Satellite Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (S-UMTS). Since S-UMTS aims at achieving close integration with the terrestrial component (T-UMTS) in its complementary role, it is going to implement closed-loop transmit power control (TPC) at a slow rate of once every frame. In addition, predictive schemes can be used to mitigate the effects of delay. In this regard, recursive-least-squares (RLS) and least-mean-square (LMS) algorithms are normally employed. The RLS algorithm has a higher convergence rate than the LMS algorithm: an attractive attribute when the fading process abruptly changes. The LMS algorithm, on the other hand, has better tracking property than the RLS algorithm: an attractive attribute when the changes in the fading process are persistently slow. However, the mobile satellite system channel exhibits both attributes: abrupt changes and slow drifts. In this paper, therefore, we compare the performance of predictive TPC based on the RLS and the LMS algorithms for S-UMTS with the conventional TPC as a reference. We demonstrate that the predictive TPC schemes perform better than the conventional TPC scheme. However, the performance gain achieved depends on the predictive algorithm used, the environment in which the user equipment is operating, and loop delays. We show that, in general, the LMS based predictive TPC offers better performance than the RLS based predictive TPC scheme in S-UMTS environment.

POWMAC: a single-channel power-control protocol for throughput enhancement in wireless ad hoc networks

Transmission power control (TPC) has great potential to increase the throughput of a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). Existing TPC schemes achieve this goal by using additional hardware (e.g., multiple transceivers), by compromising the collision avoidance property of the channel access scheme, by making impractical assumptions on the operation of the medium access control (MAC) protocol, or by overlooking the protection of link-layer acknowledgment packets. In this paper, we present a novel power controlled MAC protocol called POWMAC, which enjoys the same single-channel, single-transceiver design of the IEEE 802.11 ad hoc MAC protocol but which achieves a significant throughput improvement over the 802.11 protocol. Instead of alternating between the transmission of control (RTS/CTS) and data packets, as done in the 802.11 scheme, POWMAC uses an access window (AW) to allow for a series of request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) exchanges to take place before several concurrent data packet transmissions can commence. The length of the AW is dynamically adjusted based on localized information to allow for multiple interference-limited concurrent transmissions to take place in the same vicinity of a receiving terminal. Collision avoidance information is inserted into the CTS packet and is used to bound/ the transmission power of potentially interfering terminals in the vicinity of the receiver, rather than silencing such terminals. Simulation results are used to demonstrate the significant throughput and energy gains that can be obtained under the POWMAC protocol.

Regular paper section: A new wcdma transmit power control technique

In this paper a new Transmit Power Control (TPC) scheme is proposed for SINR-based fast PC algorithms using frcquency-mutiplexed pilot symbols on the uplink of a WCDMA Rayleigh fading mobile radio channel with multi-path. The performance of various PC techniques is evaluated by means of Monte Carlo computer simulation. The WCDMA modem considered includes different coding schemes and a matched filter RAKE combining receiver. The objective is to investigate the effects of the number of resolvable propagation paths, the antenna diversity reception scheme employed and the coding scheme used on the performance of the fast power controlled WCDMA receiver in a Rayleigh fading single-cell environment. The results obtained indicate that the unbalanced PC algorithms outperform the conventional balanced PC algorithms. It is also theoretically proved that the unbalanced PC algorithms have better tracking ability than the conventional PC algorithms.