Title
Transmit Only: An Ultra Low Overhead MAC Protocol for Dense Wireless Systems
Abstract
The number of small wireless devices is rapidly increasing, making the radio channel efficiency in limited geographic areas (individual rooms or buildings) an important metric for MAC protocols. Many of these emerging devices have use-cases that are difficult to satisfy with current hardware solutions and channel access methods; for instance device mobility, small energy reserves, and requirements for low cost and small form factors. However, for most of these applications, such as health care monitoring or sensing, feedback to the radio device is unnecessary and unidirectional communication techniques are not only sufficient, but can also be advantageous. We propose an efficient, reliable technique for unidirectional communication, called Transmit Only (TO), that satisfies these requirements while maintaining packet throughput guarantees and reducing energy consumption. In this paper we will demonstrate the feasibility and performance of this kind of highly asymmetric, transmit-only protocol through theoretical, simulated, and experimental results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2017.7947055
2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
ultra low overhead MAC protocol,dense wireless systems,radio channel efficiency,unidirectional communication,energy consumption,transmit-only protocol
Transmitter,Wireless,Wireless systems,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Radio channel,Throughput,Energy consumption,Channel access method
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-6518-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
12
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanyong Zhang13116184.08
Bernhard Firner249423.49
Richard Howard331125.10
richard p martin461.84
Narayan B. Mandayam51471161.08
Junichiro Fukuyama600.34
Chenren Xu751336.00