WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
Print ISSN: 1109-2769, E-ISSN: 2224-2880
Volume 15, 2016
Media Access Over PLC Technology Using Shapley-Shubik Power Index
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Abstract: Due to the growing demand of new services, IEEE 1901 has embedded a mechanism of Access to the hybrid means, supported in CSMA/CA and TDMA in order to offer accurate levels of quality of service (QoS). Nevertheless, such strategy has shown low efficiency, as the number of nodes increases. In the view of the above, this paper proposes a mechanism of media access over OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access), based on the weighted voting games, supported in the Shapley-Shubik’s power index in order to optimize the allocation of resources in the time and frequency domain. This optimizing will, thus, improve the network performance and allow multiple nodes to be able to transmit simultaneously. According to the results, it was possible to evidence that the usage of weighted voting games supported in the Shapley-Shubik’s power index can be considered as an alternative to establish a mechanism of access to the adequate media in PLC networks and its feasibility of being implemented in low-cost embedded systems due to the fact that such alternative does not require a high computational complexity for its development.
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Keywords: Resource management, Computer networks, Cooperative Game Theory, Optimization methods, Shapley-Shubik’s power index, Power Line Communications
Pages: 511-522
WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2769 / 2224-2880, Volume 15, 2016, Art. #48