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The Link-16 tactical data link is a wireless data broadcasting network using fixed TDMA protocol. However, the fixed TDMA protocol cant adjust the time slot adaptively according to users demand, resulting in waste of network resources. In this paper, two dynamic TDMA protocols for tactical data link is studied, which are designed to meet the transmission requirements of some network nodes to send large quantities of messages abruptly. In the reservation-based dynamic TDMA protocol, dynamic reserved time slots are allocated by the master node according to the real-time level requirements and the time-out degree of the messages. In the contention-based dynamic TDMA protocol, other nodes can compete with the time slot when there is no data transmission requirement in itself fixed time slot. The two dynamic TDMA protocols improves the utilization rate of time slots and increase the throughput of the network. The simulations results show that two dynamic TDMA protocols are able to achieve much higher throughput, lower average delay than the fixed TDMA protocol.
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This research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China, under Grand No. 61501415.
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Liu, L., Liu, Y., Wang, Z., Liu, C. (2018). Design of Dynamic TDMA Protocols for Tactical Data Link. In: Li, B., Shu, L., Zeng, D. (eds) Communications and Networking. ChinaCom 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78130-3_18
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