Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 2.1
Comparison of MAC protocols
UWB
2
[
15
,
16
]
Performance
attributes
IEEE
802.15.6 [
4
]
IEEE
802.15.4 a [
8
]
PSMA
based
MAC
[
11
,
12
]
ER based
MAC [
14
]
U-MAC [
18
]
DCC-MAC
[
19
,
20
]
Multiband
MAC [
22
]
PULSERS
[
23
]
Transmit-only
MAC [
5
,
26
]
UWB-Tx and
NB-Rx
MAC [
27
]
Energy efficiency
X
X
X
X
4
4
X
X
X
4
4
Qos
4
X
X
X
X
4
X
X
4
X
4
Priority traffic
4
4
4
X
X
X
X
X
4
X
4
Scalability
4
X
X
4
X
4
X
X
X
4
4
Latency
X
X
X
4
X
X
X
4
X
4
X
Interference mitigation
X
X
4
4
4
4
4
4
X
X
4
Channel access
Random -
ALOHA
Random -
ALOHA
Random -
PSMA
TH-code with
spatial reuse
TH-code
TH-code
with power
management
TH-code
Frequency
division
Time
division
Random -
Rate division
Random +
TDMA
