Adaptive Delayed Acknowledgement Algorithm for MPEG-4 Traffic in UWB Networks

Introduction While the market for fixed and wired personal com-puters is tending to stagnate,mobile computing is re-ceiving more and more attention.A wide variety ofmobile computing devices have emerged includingpalmtops,personal digital assistants,and po…

Adaptive Delayed Acknowledgement Algorithm for MPEG-4 Traffic in UWB Networks

Although ultra-wideband transmission rates are very high in the physical layer, the bandwidth utili-zation efficiency is very low in the medium access control (MAC) layer. The bandwidth utilization efficiency can be improved and the quality of service for delay-sensitive variable bit rate traffic such as high rate mo-tion picture experts group (MPEG)-4 traffic can be guaranteed by a simple and efficient algorithm that dy-namically sets the burst size of the delayed-acknowledgement (Dly-ACK) based on the IEEE 802.15.3 stan-dard. The burst size was adjusted in response to the wireless channel quality. Furthermore, the burst size was bounded by a maximum acknowledgement burst size setting and the remaining number of un-received blocks of a current supra-block. Simulation results show that the method achieves significant performance enhancement in the job failure rate and throughput compared to immediate-acknowledgement (Imm-ACK) and other fixed burst size Dly-ACK schemes. This algorithm can also be applied in generalized time division multiple access (TDMA) systems by using the block acknowledgement mechanism for delay sensitive traffic.