Performance analysis of the link layer protocol for UWB impulse radio networks

Abstract

The Self-organizing Device discovery and Data transmission protocol (SDD) is a novel self-organizing link layer protocol, that was proposed for UWB impulse radio based networks. By means of simulations, it has been indicated that the SDD protocol enables a node to discover most of its neighboring nodes in short discovery time, in the mean time, appropriately avoids collisions. Further evaluations are carried out in this paper by creating a new analytical model to investigate the theoretical relations among the discovery time, the discovery ratio and the system parameters. It can be concluded that the SDD protocol is an efficient, scalable and well performed protocol.

MAC Protocol Design for Impulse Radio UWB Based WPANs

“…Therefore we introduced a RSW adaptation algorithm in the TCDD protocol, which is similar with the SDD protocol [5]. Based on the previously proposed analytical model in [8], we investigate the relations among the factors impacting the RSW receptions. For one time slot in the RSW of DEV i, it has a probability P i,null (n) of receiving nothing in the n th round of RSW.…”