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Efficient and fast dual-channel MAC protocol for terahertz wireless personal area networks
ZHOU Xun, ZHOU Haidong, REN Zhi, ZOU Mingrui, LI Guangbin
Journal of Computer Applications    2018, 38 (5): 1436-1441.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2017102542
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To address the problems that data transmission delay is high and the channel utilization rate is low in the TAB-MAC (Assisted Beamforming MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol for terahertz communication network) for present terahertz Wireless Personal Area Network (T-WPAN), an Efficient and Fast dual-channel MAC protocol for T-WPAN (EF-MAC) was proposed. A test frame was sent to the source node through destination node to reduce an acknowledgment frame, so as to reduce control overhead and test delay. And then a sending and receiving mechanism of node location information was adaptively concelled, the source or destination node obtained the location information of the other node through interaction process previously of RTS/CTS (Request To Send/Clear To Send) frame, and the position of other node had not changed, thus the location information of RTS or CTS frame could be omitted to reduce control overhead. The theoretical analysis and simulation results show that compared with TAB-MAC protocol, the proposed protocol can effectively reduce data transmission delay and improve network throughput.
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