Qi J Y, Ren Z, Zhang W Y, et al. Low Latency and High Reliability Multi-PAN Terahertz Wireless Personal Area Networks MAC Protocol[J]. Study on Optical Communications, 2026(2): 240179.
Qi J Y, Ren Z, Zhang W Y, et al. Low Latency and High Reliability Multi-PAN Terahertz Wireless Personal Area Networks MAC Protocol[J]. Study on Optical Communications, 2026(2): 240179. DOI: 10.13756/j.gtxyj.2026.240179.
Low Latency and High Reliability Multi-PAN Terahertz Wireless Personal Area Networks MAC Protocol
To address the problems that the existing solutions for high cross-Personal Area Network (PAN) data transmission latency and edge node transmission interference in distributed terahertz Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) protocols suffer from unbalanced resource allocation and inadequate node status reporting mechanism during the Normal Channel Time Allocation Period (N-CTAP)
this paper proposes a low-latency and high-reliability multi-PAN terahertz WPAN Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol
LLHR-MAC.
Methods
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This protocol first optimizes the coordinated superframe structure of existing terahertz WPAN. This method reduces the waiting time for bridge nodes to apply for time slots for forwarding data
thereby reducing the cross PAN data transmission access delay. Then
the existing edge node slot allocation mechanism is improved to solve the slot allocation problem in the case of multiple PAN quantities and the waste of N-CTAP slot resources. Finally
it is proposed that nodes report their own status information to the Piconet Coordinator (PNC) by utilizing the resources of the idle Beacon Alignment Period (BAP)
so as to solve the problem that the PNC fails to allocate reliable time slot resources timely and accurately due to the change of node status.
Results
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By using OPNET software for simulation
it was verified that the LLHR-MAC protocol has certain improvements in transmission success rate
average access delay of data frames
MAC layer throughput
and time slot utilization compared to existing protocols.
Conclusion
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According to the simulation results
the protocol proposed in this paper can significantly enhance the network performance of multi-PAN terahertz wireless networks. It also has practical significance for the optimization of network performance in environments with a larger number of personal area networks in the future.
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