Paper Info
Title
Achieving Fairness in IEEE 802.11ah Networks for IoT Applications with Different Requirements
Abstract
The IEEE 802.11ah standard can provide cost-effective Internet access to a large number of devices in newly evolving Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) networks. To handle high collision probability caused by a large number of devices, it adopts a group-based protocol at the MAC layer and divides nodes (or sensors) into a number of groups. The formed groups may not be uniform in terms of data rate requirements, since each group is a combination of sensors with different traffic characteristics. To achieve fair resource utilization across the groups which in turn maximizes the channel utilization, this paper formulates fair grouping in IEEE 802.11ah networks as an optimization problem, and we develop a heuristic method to solve the problem in real-time. In addition, to ensure fair channel utilization by the nodes in each group, a contention window selection and adjustment method is proposed. Results from extensive simulations conducted in a dense IoT network show that the proposed fairness model achieves a superior performance than the existing methods in terms of throughput, packet delay, energy efficiency, and fairness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICC.2019.8761401
IEEE International Conference on Communications
Field
DocType
ISSN
Heuristic,Efficient energy use,Computer science,IEEE 802.11ah,Network packet,Computer network,Communication channel,Throughput,Internet access,Optimization problem
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. Rajya Lakshmi100.68
Biplab Sikdar276.60