Hybrid Medium Access Control Protocol for Radio-Over-Fiber Networks

The oncoming Internet-of-things (IoT) applications and smart machine-to-machine (M2M) communication lead to an enormous increase in network traffic. To meet the escalating demands of these time-critical applications, we need a hybrid optical-wireless network, for which radio-over-fiber (RoF) technology is promising candidate. These networks support stringent delay requirements above large number mobile users. However, existing user registration identification approaches are not efficient high density cannot keep overall mean within permissible limit such applications. In this article, present medium access control (MAC) protocol RoF propose neighbor-aware algorithms density. Further, MAC uses gated polling method data transfer. Moreover, analytical model protocol, gives end-to-end considering We verify it with results obtained from simulations. Finally, evaluate packet loss rate proposed by varying load, density, fiber length benchmark performance algorithm state-of-the-art (SoA).