Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2013, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (6): 69-76.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(13)60111-9

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Novel MAC protocol for terahertz ultra-high data-rate wireless networks

  

  1. 1. Chongqing Key Lab of Mobile Communications Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China 2. Research Center of Laser Fusion, Sichuan 621900, China
  • Received:2013-06-13 Revised:2013-10-24 Online:2013-12-31 Published:2013-12-27
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    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60972068), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT1299), the project of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (Kjzh11206), the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (cstc2012jjA40051), and the open project of Emergency Communication Laboratory of Chongqing (201201).

Abstract: Due to having a large bandwidth to support Gbps-level data rate, terahertz communication attracts more and more attention in recent years. However, there are few medium access control (MAC) protocols for terahertz ultra-high data-rate wireless networks, which affects the research and application of terahertz communications. To address this problem and to achieve ultra-high data-rate wireless access with terahertz communication, a novel MAC protocol, called medium access control for terahertz communication (MAC-TC), is proposed. Through designing a new channel access scheme, a new superframe structure, and related key parameters, MAC-TC can support a maximum data rate up to 10 Gbit/s even higher. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that our proposed MAC protocol realizes the function of medium access control and attains a maximum data rate of 18.3 Gbit/s, which is 2 times higher than 5.78 Gbit/s, the theoretical maximum data rate of IEEE 802.15.3c standard.

Key words: wireless networks, terahertz, MAC protocols, ultra-high data rate, superframes

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