Wireless Personal Area Networks

- Contents

- Preface

I Prologue: WPANs and 802.15.4 1

1.Wireless Personal Area Networks

1.1 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

1.2 Design Goals for the MAC Protocol

1.3 Classification of MAC Protocols For Ad Hoc Networks

1.4 Contention-Based MAC Protocols

1.5 New Kinds of Ad Hoc Networks

1.6 Sensor Networks

2.Operation of the IEEE 802.15.4 network

2.1 Physical Layer Characteristics

2.2 Star Topology and Beacon Enabled Operation

2.3 Slotted CSMA-CA Medium Access

2.4 Acknowledging Successful Transmissions

2.5 Downlink Communication in Beacon Enabled Mode

2.6 Guaranteed Time Slots

2.7 Peer-to-Peer Topology and Non-Beacon Enabled Operation

2.8 Device Functionality and Cluster Formation

2.9 Format of the PHY and MAC frames

II Single-Cluster Networks

3.Cluster with Uplink Traffic

3.1 The System Model - Preliminaries

3.2 Superframe With an Active Period Only

3.3 Superframe With Both Active and Inactive Periods

3.4 Probability Distribution of the Packet Service Time

3.5 Probability Distribution of the Queue Length

3.6 Access Delay

3.7 Performance Results

4.Cluster With Uplink And Downlink Traffic

4.1 The System Model

4.2 Modeling the Behavior of the Medium

4.3 Probability Distribution For the Packet Service Time

4.4 Performance of the Cluster With Bidirectional Traffic

5.MAC Layer Performance Limitations

5.1 Congestion of Packets Deferred to The Next Superframe

5.2 Congestion After The Inactive Period

5.3 Congestion of Uplink Data Requests

5.4 Blocking of Uplink Data and Data Requests

5.5 Possible Remedies

6.Activity Management Through Bernoulli Scheduling

6.1 The Need For Activity Management

6.2 Analysis of Activity Management

6.3 Analysis of the Impact of MAC and PHY Layers

6.4 Controlling the Event Sensing Reliability

6.5 Activity Management Policy

7.Admission Control Issues

7.1 The Need for Admission Control

7.2 Performance Under

Xuemin (Sherman)Shen (M'97-SM'02) received his B.Sc degree in electrical engineering from Dalian Maritime University, China, in 1982, and the M.SC. and Ph.D. degrees (both i8n electrical engineering) from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He is a Professor and University Research Chair, and the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on mobility and resource management in interconnected wireless/wired networks, UWB wireless communications systems, wireless security, and ad hoc and sensor networks. he is a co-author of three books, and has published more than 300 papers and book chapters on wireless communications and networks, control and filtering. Dr. Shen serves as a Founding Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; Editor-in-Chief for Peer-to-Peer Networking and Application; Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; KICS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks, Computer Networks; ACM/Wireless Networks; and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley). etc. He has also served as Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC, IEEE Wireless Communications, and IEEE Communications Magazine. Dr. Shen recieved the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006, and the Outstanding Performance Award in 2004 from the University of Waterloo, the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada, and the Distinguished Performance Award in 2002 from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo. Dr. Shen is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Yi Pan is the Chair and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, USA. Dr. Pan received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University , China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the