Paper Info
Title
An Adaptable Contention-free MAC Protocol for Full-duplex Split-plane Optical Wireless Network
Abstract
Optical wireless communication (OWC) is emerging as a potential solution for the deployment of 5G and beyond/ 6G heterogeneous networks as it can reach physical layer data rates exceeding 10 Gbps. However, the upper layer protocols of OWC are not yet fully developed to support multi user communication and emerging applications. Hence, the development of proper upper layer protocols and network architectures to support such communication under the multi-gigabit capabilities becomes a matter of the utmost importance. In this paper, we propose a contention-free medium access control (MAC) protocol within the Full-duplex Split-plane Optical Wireless Network (FLOWN) architecture to offer users a guaranteed channel access. The proposed protocol is equipped with split-plane operation, full-size IP packet support with high aggregation, and adaptive beacon interval adjustment. Through simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed MAC protocol can simultaneously serve upcoming high demanding multi-gigabit and delay-stringent applications by satisfying their quality of experience requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500719
IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
OWC, MAC, Contention-free, FLOWN
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sampath Edirisinghe101.69
Chathurika Ranaweera2266.43
Elaine Wong34410.94
Christina Lim43114.45
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas500.68