Admission control and resource allocation strategies for IEEE 802.15.5

Abstract

In this paper, a novel two-tier mechanism for the access control and resource allocation of a two-hop high data rate IEEE 802.15.5 network is proposed. One of the main contributions in this proposal is the use of a dynamic superframe size in the IEEE 802.15.5. Additionally, the ideas of using a superframe utilization threshold and a channel time allocation period (CTAP) utilization threshold are incorporated, with the aim of allowing more devices to access the shared superframe. Using these thresholds, two new hop-1 resource allocation algorithms are described; CTAP utilization threshold-based resource allocation algorithm (CTRA) and superframe utilization threshold-based resource allocation algorithm (STRA). These algorithms control the access of the hop-1 Mesh PicoNet Coordinators (MPNCs) and Mesh DEVices (MDEVs) to the channel time resources in the superframe. Furthermore, an algorithm for the distribution of the hop-1 MPNCs' resources among the real-time (RT) and non-real-time (NRT) MDEVs at hop-2 is introduced. In this mechanism, a new flag metric is applied to provide higher priorities to MPNCs over MDEVs in the hop-1 algorithms and to the RT MDEVs over the NRT MDEVs in the hop-2 algorithm. Simulation results show the superiority of the proposed mechanism over others by providing a higher satisfaction factor and higher fairness among the competing devices at both hop-1 and hop-2 of the IEEE 802.15.5.