scholarly journals In-Band Full Duplex Wireless LANs: Medium Access Control Protocols, Design Issues and Their Challenges

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Md. Ruhul Amin ◽  
Md. Shohrab Hossain ◽  
Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Medium Access Control ◽  
Wireless Local Area Network ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Full Duplex ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Wireless Medium

In-band full duplex wireless medium access control (MAC) protocol is essential in order to enable higher layers of the protocol stack to exploit the maximum benefits from physical layer full duplex technology. Unlike half duplex wireless local area network, a full duplex MAC protocol has to deal with several unique issues and challenges that arise because of the dynamic nature of the wireless environment. In this paper, we have discussed several existing full duplex MAC protocols and have shown qualitative comparisons among these full duplex MAC protocols. Full duplex in-band wireless communication has the potential to double the capacity of wireless network. Inter-client Interference (ICI) is a hindrance in achieving double spectral efficiency of the in-band full-duplex wireless medium. In this paper, we have classified existing solutions to the ICI problem and compared the solutions with respect to the proposed approaches, their advantages and disadvantages.We have also identified and discussed several issues and challenges of designing a full duplex MAC protocol. Results of qualitative comparisons of various wireless full duplex MAC protocols may be applied to design new protocols as well as researchers may find the identified issues and challenges helpful to solve various problems of a full duplex MAC protocol.

scholarly journals WLAN Aware Cognitive Medium Access Control Protocol for IoT Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asfund Ausaf ◽  
Mohammad Zubair Khan ◽  
Muhammad Awais Javed ◽  
Ali Kashif Bashir
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Medium Access Control ◽  
Ieee 802.15.4 ◽  
Wireless Local Area Network ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Medium Access

Internet of Things (IoT)-based devices consist of wireless sensor nodes that are battery-powered; thus, energy efficiency is a major issue. IEEE 802.15.4-compliant IoT devices operate in the unlicensed Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band of 2.4 GHz and are subject to interference caused by high-powered IEEE 802.11-compliant Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) users. This interference causes frequent packet drop and energy loss for IoT users. In this work, we propose a WLAN Aware Cognitive Medium Access Control (WAC-MAC) protocol for IoT users that uses techniques, such as energy detection based sensing, adaptive wake-up scheduling, and adaptive backoff, to reduce interference with the WSN and improve network lifetime of the IoT users. Results show that the proposed WAC-MAC achieves a higher packet reception rate and reduces the energy consumption of IoT nodes.

scholarly journals Detection and Prevention of De-authentication Attack in Real-time Scenario

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 3324-3330
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Medium Access Control ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Wireless Local Area Network ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Dos Attack ◽  
Medium Access

Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is an infrastructure network in which nodes are connected to a centralized system to provide Internet access to mobile users by radio waves. But WLANs are vulnerable to Medium Access Control (MAC) layer Denial of Service (DoS) attacks due to the susceptibility of the management frames. An attacker can spoof the MAC address of the legitimate client and perform de-authentication attack to disconnect WLANs users from the access point. Many free tools are available in Kali Linux Operating System (OS) by which this attack can be performed and cause a security threat to WLAN users. The consequences of de-authentication DoS attack are frequent disconnection from Internet, traffic redirection, man-in-the-middle attack, and congestion. Despite enormous efforts in combating de-authentication DoS attack in the past decade, this attack is still a serious threat to the security of the cyber world. Medium Access Control Spoof Detection and Prevention (MAC SDP) DoS algorithm performs detection and prevention of de-authentication attack caused by spoofing MAC address. This algorithm is modified to make it more immune to the de-authentication attack and implemented in real-time scenario. The results show that the proposed technique increases the packet flow rate by 20.36%, reduces the packet loss by 95.71%, and reduces the down time and recovery time by 0.39 sec and 0.9 sec respectively as compared to MAC SDP DoS algorithm.

Survey of Energy Efficient and Contention Based MAC Protocol in WBAN for Medical and Consumer Supply Chain Application

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
A. Punitha ◽  
Sujin P. Jose
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Medium Access Control ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Medium Access

The authors provide an extensive survey of recent energy-efficient and contention based medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless body area networks (WBANs). They briefed the crucial applications of WBAN in present scenario and also discussed low-power and contention based MAC protocols for medical and consumer electronics. The authors outlined the future applications of WBAN and the enhancement to be incorporated to improve the efficiency of WBAN systems.

Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

2012 ◽  
pp. 367-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pardeep Kumar ◽  
Mesut Gunes
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Medium Access Control ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Basic Network

This chapter provides an overall understanding of the design aspects of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). A WSN MAC protocol shares the wireless broadcast medium among sensor nodes and creates a basic network infrastructure for them to communicate with each other. The MAC protocol also has a direct influence on the network lifetime of WSNs as it controls the activities of the radio, which is the most power-consuming component of resource-scarce sensor nodes. In this chapter, the authors first discuss the basics of MAC design for WSNs and present a set of important MAC attributes. Subsequently, authors discuss the main categories of MAC protocols proposed for WSNs and highlight their strong and weak points. After briefly outlining different MAC protocols falling in each category, the authors provide a substantial comparison of these protocols for several parameters. Lastly, the chapter discusses future research directions on open issues in this field that have mostly been overlooked.

Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

2013 ◽  
pp. 947-974
Author(s):  
Pardeep Kumar ◽  
Mesut Gunes
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Medium Access Control ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Basic Network

This chapter provides an overall understanding of the design aspects of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). A WSN MAC protocol shares the wireless broadcast medium among sensor nodes and creates a basic network infrastructure for them to communicate with each other. The MAC protocol also has a direct influence on the network lifetime of WSNs as it controls the activities of the radio, which is the most power-consuming component of resource-scarce sensor nodes. In this chapter, the authors first discuss the basics of MAC design for WSNs and present a set of important MAC attributes. Subsequently, authors discuss the main categories of MAC protocols proposed for WSNs and highlight their strong and weak points. After briefly outlining different MAC protocols falling in each category, the authors provide a substantial comparison of these protocols for several parameters. Lastly, the chapter discusses future research directions on open issues in this field that have mostly been overlooked.

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