Trade-off analysis of PHY-aware MAC in low-rate low-power UWB networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 147-155

  El Fawal, Alaeddine ^a   Le Boudec, Jean Yves ^a   Merz, Ruben ^a   Radunović, Božidar ^a   Widmer, Jörg ^a   Maggio, Gian Mario ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; DATA RATES; DESIGN PHASE; DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN TRADEOFF; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN; IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA-WIDEBAND; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; LOW POWER; POWER LOW; SLEEP CYCLE; SYSTEM ARCHITECTS; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS; UWB SYSTEM;

DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 33746453247     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2005.1561932     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. F. Cuomo et al., "Radio Resource Sharing for Ad Hoc Networking with UWB," IEEE JSAC, vol.20, no.9, Dec. 2002, pp. 1722-1732
2. R. Merz et al., "A Joint PHY/MAC Architecture for Lowradiated power TH-UWB Wireless Ad-hoc Networks," Wireless Commun. and Mobile Comp. J., Special Issue on Ultrawideband Communications, vol.5, no.5, Aug. 2005, pp. 567-580
3. M. Z. Win and R. A. Scholtz, "Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Time-Hopping Spread-Spectrum Impulse Radio for Wireless Multiple-Access Communications," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol.48, no.4, Apr. 2000, pp. 679-691
4. S. Gezici et al., "Localization via Ultra-wideband Radios: A Look at Positioning Aspects for Future Sensor Networks," IEEE Sig. Proc., vol.22, no.4, July 2005, pp. 70-84.
5. L. Yang and G. B. Giannakis, "Ultra-Wideband Communications: An Idea Whose Time Has Come," IEEE Sig. Proc., vol.21, no.6, Nov. 2004, pp. 26-54.
6. Lang Tong, V. Naware, and P. Venkitasubramaniam, "Signal Processing in Random Access," IEEE Sig. Proc., vol.21, no.5, Sept. 2004, pp. 29-39.
7. A. Doufexi et al., "A Comparison of the HIPERLAN/2 and IEEE 802.11a Wireless LAN Standards," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol.40, no. 5, May 2002, pp. 172-80.
8. E. Ferro and F. Potorti, "Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Wireless Protocols: a Survey and a Comparison," IEEE Wireless Commun., vol.12, no.1, Feb. 2005, pp. 12-26.
9. E. Callaway et al., "Home Networking with IEEE 802.15.4: a Developing Standard for Low-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol.40, no.8, Aug. 2002, pp. 70-77.
10. A. Muqattash and M. Krunz, "CDMA-Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Proc. Int'l. Symp. Mobile Ad Hoc Net. and Comp., June 2003, pp. 153-164
11. M.-G. Di Benedetto et al., "(UWB)2: Uncoordinated, Wireless, Baseborn, Medium Access Control for UWB Communication Networks," to appear, Mobile Networks and Apps., Special Issue on WLAN Optimization at the MAC and Network Levels, 2005.
12. B. Radunovic and J. Y. Le Boudec, "Optimal Power Control, Scheduling and Routing in UWB Networks," IEEE JSAC, vol.22, no.7, Sept. 2004, pp. 1252-1270
13. UWB research at EPFL-IC, simulation code, http:// icawww1.epfl.ch/uwb/ code, 2005.
14. B. Radunovic, "A Cross-Layer Design of Wireless Ad- Hoc Networks," Ph.D. thesis 3301, EPFL, June 2005.
15. A. El Fawal and J.-Y. Le Boudec, "A Power Independent Detection Method for UWB Impulse Radio Networks," IEEE Int'l. Conf. Ultra-Wideband, 2005.