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This paper introduces the concept of switched FlexRay networks and proposes two algorithms to schedule data communication for this new type of network. Switched FlexRay networks use an intelligent star coupler, called a switch, to temporarily decouple network branches, thereby increasing the effective network bandwidth. Although scheduling for basic FlexRay networks is not new, prior work in this...
Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) are used for a wide variety of applications. Earlier WPANs, like Bluetooth, offer data rates only for low rate communication. Nowadays, consumer electronic devices have high demands on communication systems, e.g. for high definition video transmission. Users expect future WPANs to act like wired systems by means of reliability, that is, packet loss and distortion...
This paper, presents a learning automata based algorithm (LABTA) to determine an appropriate time interval for topology control, while capturing network updates and minimizing algorithm overhead. This algorithm is application dependent and it is possible to consider other parameters like delay, etc. In this paper, we describe how to merge parameters and compute the fitness. We have implemented the...
In the recent years, message-passing paradigm has emerged as a canonical algorithmic solution to solve networkwide problems by means of minimal local information exchange, across variety of disciplines. The primary purpose of this work is to understand tradeoffs offered between network performance and protocol overhead by a class of message-passing algorithms - belief propagation and its variants...
In recent years, data gathering has received significant attention as an application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Staggered data tree based protocols have been shown to be successful in reducing energy consumption in data gathering scenarios. An important part of staggered protocols is the process of schedule construction. In order to minimize energy consumption, this process must be fast....
The wireless communication technologies, such as wireless sensor network, can bring great economic benefits to industrial plants. But the open channel and multi-hop network topology will influence its real-time and reliable performance. Funneling effect is a kind of congestion caused by the wireless hop-by-hop and many-to-one networks. IEEE802.15.4 is a wireless personal area network standard that...
In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward cooperative network composed of N nodes. Here we focus on the scheduling problem which consists in assigning the roles {source, relay} to the N nodes. Our target is to investigate and develop relay selection policies that can be used in amplify-and-forward cooperative systems. For fairness and simplicity issues, we assume that a node is chosen as a...
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) with chain topologies are very useful in road and railroad transportation or in tunnel and mine applications. The proposed protocols for WMNs usually support best-effort traffic or some kind of Quality of Service (QoS). However, some applications such as remote-controlled machines in industrial control networks have Hard Real-Time (HRT) requirements, i.e., strict deadlines...
This paper formally establishes that random access scheduling schemes, and, more specifically CSMA-CA, yields exceptionally good performance in the context of wireless multihop networks. While it is believed that CSMA-CA performs significantly worse than optimal, this belief is usually based on experiments that use rate allocation mechanisms which grossly underutilize the available capacity that random...
Topology control is one of the fundamental problems in WSNs (wireless sensor networks). It is of great importance for prolong lifetime, reducing radio interference, for prolong lifetime, increasing the efficiency of MAC (media access control) protocols and routing protocols, ensure the quality of connectivity and coverage, increasing the network service and so on. In this survey paper, different network...
CSMA-based scheduling is a recently proposed distributed scheduling algorithm that is shown to achieve the maximal throughput. Central to this algorithm is a Markov chain that produces samples from a desired distribution. In this work, we discuss the relationships of the achievable throughput, queueing delay and the mixing time of the Markov chain in a variant of the algorithm. This result suggests...
The MAC problem in a wireless network has intrigued researchers for years. The MAC protocol is also important for airborne ad hoc network in order to reducing TDMA overhead, increasing TDMA throughput, and decreasing End-to-End delay. Our proposed Token Cycle Scheduling described in this paper allow the exchange of control information in an efficient and contention free manner such that each participating...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has become as a promising scalable solution to offer high-quality streaming multimedia to a large number of consumers at reasonable cost. Many existing systems have been deployed based on IPv4 network environment [1], [2]. IPv6 protocol has been seemed as a core component in Next Generation Internet (NGI) and the P2P streaming scheme which can be implemented in a IPv4...
In this paper, we develop and evaluate models to estimate and optimize various performance metrics for unicast traffic using the hard scheduling (virtual circuit connection-oriented) mode of the reservation based protocol USAP in mobile ad-hoc wireless networks (MANETs). USAP (Unifying Slot Assignment Protocol) is a dynamic distributed resource allocation protocol for MANETs. We model USAP hard scheduling...
TDMA-based MAC protocols are considered an energy efficient solution to prolong wireless sensor network lifetime. The topology learning and collection process, together with the used scheduling scheme, are essential parts in the design of such MAC protocols. Previous MAC and multihop scheduling protocols rely completely on CSMA to exchange topology scheduling information. However, for large or dense...
In this paper, we consider the important aspect of quality of service (QoS) in wireless mesh networks, focusing on packet delays and packet drops. We observe that the options of solely focusing on throughput, and of only depending on the QoS type characterization by the application level protocol is not sufficient. We propose the use of multiple queues to hold the packets based on their QoS requirement...
Recently Andrew et al. proposed the TCP evaluation suite to provide a common test suite for researchers designing new TCP extensions and AQM mechanisms. It defines network topologies, simulation scenarios i.e. traffic characteristic as well as evaluation parameters to provide a common testbed for all new enhancements. The presented remarks determine the essential features of a simulation environment...
Underwater acoustic networks (UAN) are becoming an integral part of a wide range of applications, such as those used for exploration and maintenance in the offshore oil and gas industry, surveillance for homeland security, subsea mine counter measures, marine environmental assessment and diving activities. For UAN, efficient and effective media access control (MAC) is a very important requirement...
Pull-based mesh streaming protocols have recently received much research attention, with successful commercial systems showing their viability in the Internet. Despite the remarkable popularity in real-world systems, the fundamental properties and limitations of pull-based protocols are not yet well understood from a theoretical perspective, as there exists no prior work that studies the performance...
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are emerging as a promising technology for backhauling data traffic from wireless access networks to the wired Internet. Such networks are expected to support various types of applications with different quality of service (QoS) requirements. In this paper, we provide a complete cross-layer solution for WMNs together with its OPNET simulation architecture that comprises...
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