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Hybrid Station Aided Coexistence Scheme between Wireless PANs and Wireless LAN

Fumihiro INOUE, Takayuki NISHIO, Masahiro MORIKURA, Koji YAMAMOTO, Fusao NUNO, Takatoshi SUGIYAMA

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The problem of coexistence between IEEE 802.11g based wireless LANs (WLANs) and IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless personal area networks (WPANs) in the 2.4GHz band is an important issue for the operation of a home energy management system (HEMS) for smart grids. This paper proposes a coexistence scheme that is called a Hybrid station aided coexistence (HYSAC) scheme to solve this problem. This scheme employs a hybrid-station (H-STA) that possesses two types of network device functions. The scheme improves the data transmission quality of the WPAN devices which transmit energy management information such as power consumption. The proposed HYSAC scheme employs WLAN control frames, which are used to assign WPAN system traffic resources. Moreover, we propose a coexistence method to achieve excellent WLAN throughput where multiple WPANs coexist with a WLAN. We theoretically derive the performance of the proposed scheme by considering the QoS support in WLAN and show that the results of the simulation and theoretical analysis are in good agreement. The numerical results show that the HYSAC scheme decreases the beacon loss rate of WPAN to less than 1% when the WLAN system consists of 10 STAs under saturated traffic conditions. Furthermore, the WLAN throughput of the proposed synchronization method is shown to be 30.6% higher than that of the HYSAC scheme without synchronization when the WLAN that consists of 10 STAs coexists with four WPANs.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E98-A No.2 pp.578-588
Publication Date
2015/02/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E98.A.578
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Wideband Systems)
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Authors

Fumihiro INOUE
  Kyoto University
Takayuki NISHIO
  Kyoto University
Masahiro MORIKURA
  Kyoto University
Koji YAMAMOTO
  Kyoto University
Fusao NUNO
  NTT Corporation
Takatoshi SUGIYAMA
  NTT Corporation

Keyword

coexistence,  IEEE 802.15.4,  IEEE 802.11,  ZigBee,  WLAN,  WPAN,  WSN,  QoS