12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'06)
Implementation of a Dominance Protocol for Wireless Medium Access
Sydney, Australia
August 16-August 18
ISBN: 0-7695-2676-4
Consider the problem of scheduling sporadic message transmission requests with deadlines. For wired channels, this has been achieved successfully using the CAN bus. For wireless channels, researchers have recently proposed a similar solution; a collision-free medium access control (MAC) protocol that implements static-priority scheduling. Unfortunately no implementation has been reported, yet. We implement and evaluate it to find that the implementation indeed is collision-free and prioritized. This allows us to develop schedulability analysis for the implementation. We measure the response times of messages in our implementation and find that our new response-time analysis indeed offers an upper bound on the response times. This enables a new class of wireless real-time systems with timeliness guarantees for sporadic messages and it opens-up a new research area: schedulability analysis for wireless networks.
Citation:
Nuno Pereira, Bj?rn Andersson, Eduardo Tovar, "Implementation of a Dominance Protocol for Wireless Medium Access," rtcsa, pp.162-172, 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'06), 2006