PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MULTI-HOP WPANS BASED ON A

REALISTIC OFDM UWB PHYSICAL LAYER

by

CH.SUBRAHMANYAM

A Dissertation submitted to the

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

HYDRERABAD

in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of

Doctor of Philosophy

in

Electronics and Communications Engineering

under the Guidance of

Dr.K.Chennakesava Reddy

Hyderabad

2011
 ABSTRACT

MB-OFDM (Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is one of the

promising candidates for the UWB (Ultra-Wide-Band)-based alternative physical (PHY)

layer for WPANs (Wireless Personal Area Networks). However, the coverage radius of
MB-OFDM UWB systems is very short, and single-hop transmissions may not be
adequate for WPANs operating at very high-data-rates. Therefore, a multi-hop ad hoc
WPAN system is considered in this study in order to extend the UWB radio coverage.
The overall system performance is obtained to determine if the Quality-of-Service

parameters can still be preserved when an IEEE 802.15.3 TDMA MAC layer is used in

multi-hop communication scenarios.

A position-based stateless routing protocol with greedy forwarding is adopted in this

study for multi-hop WPANs. Simulation results show that the position-based stateless
greedy routing scheme with carefully selected transmission radius R meets the QoS

performance criteria for many real-time applications before saturation of the network

occurs. Hence, the scheme is a good choice for the routing protocol to be used with multi-

hop WPANs based on an OFDM UWB physical layer.

At the MAC layer, when using equal-weighted topology-based scheduling, it can be

observed that the system performance obtained can meet QoS requirements only when
either the data rate is very low, or there are only a very small number of active links.

Network capacities actually achieved for both 200 and 480 Mbps transmission systems

are much less than those predicted by theory since the network bandwidth is not utilized

efficiently. When using the on-demand rate-based scheduling scheme, the performance
results for both the 200 and 480 Mbps transmission systems match the network capacity

levels expected for multi-hop WPANs. The scheduling efficiency is comparatively high

for the on-demand scheduling scheme, and hence, network bandwidth can be utilized

more efficiently. It has been found that the IEEE 802.15.3 TDMA MAC layer, with the

proper scheduling and routing schemes can satisfactorily meet QoS requirements in the

context of multi-hop networks. Multi-hop WPAN based on the OFDM UWB physical

layer has been determined to be a viable approach to extend the network coverage while

adequately supporting very high data rate multimedia traffic.

 Acknowledgements

Firstly, I would like to thank Dr.K.Chennakesava Reddy for his

supervision, for his
assistance, guidance, support and patience during the course of this
research effort. I have
enjoyed and benefited very much from working under his
supervision.

I also would like to thank Prof. B.N.Bhandari,Associate Professor,J

N T University,
Dr. Syed Abdul Sattar ,Professor & Dean,Royal Institute of
on my
Technology for taking dissertation
time from reviews. Their valuable comments and
suggestions
their busy schedules to have
servegreatly

aided the completion of this theses.

I also would like to thank Dr. Bhaktavatsalam, Director of the

Advanced Computer
Laboratory, IISC Banglore for setting up and maintaining the
software used in the conduct of this thesis
research.

Finally, I would like to thank all the people those who helped
directly or indirectly in all the stages of
The preparation of the thesis work.