Link adaptation strategies for IEEE 802.15.4 WPANs: Protocol design and performance evaluation

Youngrok Jang; Yongok Kim; Sangjoon Park; Sooyong Choi

doi:10.1109/JCN.2019.000027

Link adaptation strategies for IEEE 802.15.4 WPANs: Protocol design and performance evaluation

Youngrok Jang, Yongok Kim, Sangjoon Park, Sooyong Choi

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

This paper proposes two link adaptation strategies for IEEE 802.15.4 wireless personal area networks (WPANs), using a multi-rate signaling set. In the proposed link adaptation strategies, the most adequate modulation and coding scheme (MCS) satisfying the target bit error rate (BER) of the end device is selected based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of either a beacon or an acknowledgement (ACK) frame. The beacon-based link adaptation scheme has low complexity and overhead, given that it performs link adaptation only once per superframe. In contrast, the ACK-based strategy performs link adaptation at every ACK frame, and therefore provides a faster and more effective link adaptation, but at the expense of a larger overhead. The specific protocol design for the proposed link adaptation strategies is developed by constructing the signal flow based on the service primitives between the protocol stack layers. The network simulator OPNET is used to implement an accurate IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN protocol stack and the simulation environment required for performance evaluation. The simulation results show that the received throughput of IEEE 802.15.4 WPANs can be improved by exploiting the proposed link adaptation strategies instead of auto-rate fallback, the conventional WPAN strategy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	376-384
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Communications and Networks
Volume	21
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JCN.2019.000027
Publication status	Published - 2019 Aug

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Manuscript received September 21, 2018; approved for publication by Lin Cai, Division II Editor, March 30, 2019. This research was supported by the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program(IITP-2018-2018-0-01423) supervised by the IITP(Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion). Y. Jang and S. Choi are with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea, e-mail: {dynamics, csy-ong}@yonsei.ac.kr. Y. Kim is with the Network business division, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 129 Samsungro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do 16677, Korea, e-mail: yongok.kim@samsung.com. S. Park is with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyonggi University, Suwon 16227, Korea, e-mail: sj.park@kgu.ac.kr. S. Choi is the corresponding author. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/JCN.2019.000027

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