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A deterministic channel access scheme for multimedia streaming in WiMedia networks

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WiMedia MAC is an attractive transmission technology for high rate multimedia streaming and high quality consumer electronic devices in wireless personal area networks. In this paper, we propose a deterministic channel access (DCA), where all the devices determine their transmission orders in a distributed manner by exchanging beacon frames in the beacon period. Since all of the devices follow a deterministic transmission order, collision-free channel access can be achieved and thus the throughput can be significantly improved. In addition, the DCA addresses unfairness problems found in channel access by using circulating reference points. The trace-driven simulation results demonstrate that the DCA outperforms the existing channel access schemes in WiMedia MAC under different situations, especially under bursty traffic.

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  1. A device transmits beacons at pBeaconTransmitRate (53.3 Mbps) and the transmission time of beacon frame should not exceed the mMaxBeaconLength (mMaxBeaconLength = mBeaconSlotLength − pSIFS − GuardTime).

  2. pSlotTime can be set by considering the clear channel assessment (CCA) time, the MACDelay (i.e., the time needed for preparing a frame transmission and transferring the frame to PHY SAP), and the PHYDelay (i.e., the time needed for transferring the frame from the PHY-SAP to the wireless medium).

  3. A period is defined as a set of contiguous MASs that are not reserved by DRP devices.

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This research was supported by the KCC, Korea, under the R&D program supervised by the KCA (KCA-2011-08913-04002) and in part by WCU Project (R33-2008-000-10044-0) through the NRF funded by the MEST, Korea.

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    Hyunhee Park, Wonjung Kim & Sangheon Pack

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Park, H., Kim, W. & Pack, S. A deterministic channel access scheme for multimedia streaming in WiMedia networks. Wireless Netw 18, 771–785 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-012-0432-5

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