A CSMA/CA based MAC protocol for hybrid Power-line/Visible-light communication networks:Design and analysis

作     者：Sheng Hao Huyin Zhang Fei Yang Chenghao Li Jing Wang Sheng Hao;Huyin Zhang;Fei Yang;Chenghao Li;Jing Wang

作者机构：School of Computer ScienceCentral China Normal UniversityWuhan430079PR China Hubei Key Laboratory of intelligent Robot(Wuhan Institute of Technology)Wuhan430079PR China School of Computer ScienceWuhan UniversityWuhan430079China School of Information Science and EngineeringShandong Normal UniversityJinan250000China School of Computer ScienceHubei University of TechnologyWuhan430079China 

出 版 物：《Digital Communications and Networks》 (数字通信与网络（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第10卷第2期

页      面：481-497页

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学科分类：080904[工学-电磁场与微波技术] 0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 080402[工学-测试计量技术及仪器] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 081001[工学-通信与信息系统] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61772386) National Key Research and Development Project(No.2018YFB1305001) Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.KJ02072021-0119) 

主　　题：Hybrid power-line/Visible light communication (HPVC)networks MAC protocol CSMA/CA IEEE 802.15.7 IEEE 1901 Performance analysis 

摘      要：Hybrid Power-line/Visible-light Communication(HPVC)network has been one of the most promising Cooperative Communication(CC)technologies for constructing Smart Home due to its superior communication reliability and hardware *** research on HPVC networks focuses on the performance analysis and optimization of the Physical(PHY)layer,where the Power Line Communication(PLC)component only serves as the backbone to provide power to light Emitting Diode(LED)*** designing a Media Access Control(MAC)protocol remains a great challenge because it allows both PLC and Visible Light Communication(VLC)components to operate data transmission,i.e.,to achieve a true HPVC network *** solve this problem,we propose a new HPC network MAC protocol(HPVC MAC)based on Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance(CSMA/CA)by combining IEEE 802.15.7 and IEEE 1901 ***,we add an Additional Assistance(AA)layer to provide the channel selection strategies for sensor stations,so that they can complete data transmission on the selected channel via the specified CSMA/CA mechanism,*** on this,we give a detailed working principle of the HPVC MAC,followed by the construction of a joint analytical model for mathematicalmathematical validation of the HPVC *** the modeling process,the impacts of PHY layer settings(including channel fading types and additive noise feature),CSMA/CA mechanisms of 802.15.7 and 1901,and practical configurations(such as traffic rate,transit buffer size)are comprehensively taken into ***,we prove the proposed analytical model has the ***,through extensive simulations,we characterize the HPVC MAC performance under different system parameters and verify the correctness of the corresponding analytical model with an average error rate of 4.62%between the simulation and analytical results.