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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2017.42.2.393

Backhaul Resource Allocation Protocol for Underwater Cellular Communication Networks  

Yun, Changho (Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO), Ocean System Engineering Research Division)
Park, Jong-Won (KRISO, Ocean System Engineering Research Division)
Choi, Suhan (Dan Kook Univ., Department of Mobile System Engineering)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.42, no.2, 2017 , pp. 393-402 More about this Journal
Abstract
Just like terrestrial cellular networks, underwater cellular communication networks, which can manage the overall network resource by adaptively allocating backhaul resource for each base station according to its ingress traffic, are necessary. In this paper, a new resource allocation protocol is proposed for the underwater cellular communication network, allocating backhaul resource of a base station proportional to its ingress traffic to the base station. This protocol is classified into two types dependent upon allocation period: the resource allocation protocol with adaptive period and that with fixed period. In order to determine a proper resource allocation protocol, the performance of the two protocols, in terms of reception rate, message overhead, and latency is compared and investigated via simulation. As a result, the resource protocol with adaptive period outperforms that with fixed period; the resource allocation protocol with fixed period results in a maximum of $10^2$ order longer queueing delay as well as $10^2$ order greater message overhead than that with adaptive period.
Keywords
Base station; Backhaul; Capacity; Communication; Network; Protocol; Resource allocation; TDMA; Traffic; Underwater;
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