Random access for dense networks: Design and Analysis of Multiband CSMA/CA

Accès aléatoire pour les réseaux chargés: Conception et analyse du Multi band CSMA/CA

Baher Mawlawi (1, 2, 3)

1 SOCRATE - Software and Cognitive radio for telecommunications
2 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information
3 INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon

Random protocols are promising candidates for future wireless systems dedicated to machine to machine (M2M) communication. Such protocols are usually based on a random access with simple techniques of medium sensing and deferring to reduce collisions while avoiding the use of complex schedulers. Among different protocols, Carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance with a Request-To-Send/Clear-To-Send (CSMA/CA-RTS/CTS) is an opportunistic protocol which could be adopted for M2M scenarios. Such approach is efficient to avoid collisions between data packets but in a very dense network, the random access used to send the RTS suffers itself from a high probability of collision which degrades the performance. In order to mitigate this effect, RTS collisions should be reduced. This thesis proposes to address this issue by splitting the common channel in sub-channels for transmitting the RTS messages. While the common channel is used as a whole for data transmission. Multiple nodes can then contend in time and frequency for these RTS sub-channels, thereby reducing RTS collisions and increasing overall efficiency. In this work, we thus derive a complete protocol solution relying on CSMA/CA - RTS/CTS multiplexing a multi-channel configuration for RTS messages and a unique channel for data transmission. An enhanced version based on users scheduling is integrated as well. In this thesis, the proposed protocol is investigated from a joint PHY-MAC point of view. This strategy is shown to provide better system performance particularly for loaded networks. An accurate analytical model derived as a straightforward extension of the Bianchi model is analyzed and validated by simulations. Performance in terms of saturation throughput, transmission delay and packet drop probability is discussed.

Mots clés: CSMA/CA; Multiband; OFDM; Markov

Mots clés: 802.11; Markov; OFDM; CSMA/CA; Multi bande; M2M

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Baher Mawlawi. Random access for dense networks: Design and Analysis of Multiband CSMA/CA. Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]. INSA Lyon, 2015. English. ⟨NNT : ⟩. ⟨tel-01258500⟩