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System Performance Improvement of IEEE 802.15.3a By Using Time Slot Synchronization In MAC Layer  

Oh Dae-Gun (The College of Information & Communications, Hanyang University)
Chong Jong-Wha (The College of Information & Communications, Hanyang University)
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose the algorithm to reduce guard time of UWB MAC time slot for throughput gain. In the proposed draft by multiband ofdm alliance (MBOA), Guard time of each medium access slot (MAS) is composed of shortest inter-frame space (SIFS) and MaxDrift which is the time caused by maximum frequency offset among devices. In this paper, to reduceguard time means that we nearly eliminate MaxDrift term from guard time. Each device of a piconet computes relative frequency offset from the device initiating piconet using periodically consecutive transferred beacon frames. Each device add or subtract the calculated relative frequency offset to the estimated each MAS starting point in order to synchronize with calculated MAS starting point of the device initiating piconet. According to verification of simulations, if the frequency offset estimator is implemented with 8 decimal bit, the ratio of the wasted time to Superframe is always less than 0.0001.
Keywords
UWB (Ultra Wide Band); MinDrift = Maximum Drift; MAS = Medium Access Slot; Beacon;
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