Towards a Zero-Failure Distributed Access for Wireless Collision Channels
Sara Arabi, Ahmed Errami, Mohammed Khaldoun, Essaïd Sabir, Jelloul El Mesbahi · Lecture notes in electrical engineering · 2016
Currently in the literature, there is a significant number of access methods to the shared communication channel. For this purpose, two major classes of protocols are defined: controlled access protocols and competing protocols, in which our work is registered. In our paper, we define an access protocol where each station possesses a different and unique contention sequence CS, with which they enter in a battle with other stations. In the end of the competition, only one station is identified as a winner, and will be allowed to access to the channel and transmit its information successfully without any risk of failure. This technique is named zero failure access ZFA. The object of this paper is to compare the present technique ZFA with the other existing techniques and access methods, for instance slotted ALOHA and DCF protocols. For this issue, we derive the throughput for the three different access methods and finally illustrate the results by simulation.