Replacing Aloha with a Near Perfect Universal MAC

Hi Michael and thank you for asking for clarification. When I say "replacing Aloha", we're talking about substituting a transmission scheme which operates as any other random access protocol and can dynamically shift to a reservation protocol at higher loads. It will still be a contentious network, however, collisions can only occur in the control minislots which are then resolved in a secondary queue, as opposed to the primary global transmission queue. The result is an actual performance curve that closely follows theoretical perfection, without the typical degradation that comes with more nodes and more traffic.

A network interface card could be an exemplary implementation. However, in addition to running Ethernet, the FPGA needs to be designed with a "dual MAC" for interleaving legacy and novel flows. This coexistence scheme then presents the ability to have a migration path to high performance networks which do not have Ethernet's fundamental flaw (that it does not work well without middle hardware). Perhaps we should call it "Elegant Ethernet", but the engineers who invented it at Illinois Institute of Technology for cable TV video networks named it Distributed Queuing.

As you can see from the links I've posted, all of the more recent work has been in wireless. However, the lower layer 2 MAC specification that we are proposing should also be considered for terrestrial applications served by new type of NIC. If a pure DQ switch, we would expect packet efficiency to get the same type of improvement realized in the Zigbee and LoRa radio demos -- packet efficiency went from 50% to 98%.

In the CSMA/DQ coexistence model, efficiency would be slightly lower since time would need to be devoted to legacy devices that have no knowledge of DQ switching. However, this is a small price to pay for a migration path to future networks which do not have in Ethernet's well known performance and security constraints.

Thanks very much,

Jonathan

DQ is a novel solution but it is not a custom solution since it would become a defacto standard that Intel would include in its products without needing to collaborate with standards bodies.

There has never been a near-perfect universal MAC, so if someone came to Intel with a big idea and needed help, it is hoped that Intel would understand the "brighter light bulb" that would be an effective doubling in throughput, as well as the resulting societal impact. Again, we are talking about gaining back the best features of circuit switching in a packet switched framework.

Perhaps we can kick this up to a product manager since the support I need is for Intel products to support a novel MAC with a proven migration path for any IEEE 802.x.x. The Cyclone V would probably be a good fit per the Mathworks site, so then the only thing you'd need from me is the intellectual property I'm attempting to contribute.

A Google Research Award from Vint Cerf, an IoT World Cup for security, and an IEEE Award for the first demonstration should count for something? If not, then I give up and DQ will just continue to sit on the shelf. Conversely, I'd prefer DQ become a global IoT standard without winners and losers in the chip space.