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Table 2
Comparison of the medium access control (MAC) protocols
Performance
attribute
UWB
2
IEEE
802.15.6
IEEE
802.15.4
PSMA-
based
MAC
ER-
based
MAC
U-MAC
DCC-
MAC
Multiband
MAC
PULSERS
Transmit-
only MAC
UWB-Tx
and
NB-Rx
MAC
Energy
efficiency
×
×
×
×
×
×
×
QoS
×
×
×
×
×
×
×
Priority
traffic
×
×
×
×
×
×
Scalability
×
×
×
×
×
×
Latency
×
×
×
×
×
×
×
×
Interference
mitigation
×
×
×
×
Channel
access
Random—
ALOHA
Random—
ALOHA
Random—
PSMA
TH-
code
with
spatial
reuse
TH-
code
TH-code
with
power
manage-
ment
TH-code
Frequency
division
Time
division
Random—
rate
division
Random
+
TDMA
PSMA
preamble sense multiple access,
ER
exclusion region,
UWB
2
uncoordinated wireless baseborn access for UWB networks,
DCC-MAC
dynamic channel
coding-medium access control,
TH
time hopping,
TDMA
time division multiple access,
NB
Narrow Band
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