CAD-MAC: Coverage Adaptive Directional Medium Access Control for mmWave Wireless Personal Area Networks

Author

Kwon, Jung-Hyok ; Kim, Eui-Jik ; Kang, Chul-Hee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

26-29 March 2012

Firstpage

751

Lastpage

754

Abstract

Directional antenna is essentially recommended to use in 60 GHz band communication due to the characteristics of high path loss and short communication range. However, a number of directional antenna related researches have been considered to cover just the only specific service region. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a coverage adaptive directional MAC (abbreviated to CAD-MAC) for mmWave WPAN that dynamically assigns a sector based on variable device locations. CAD-MAC provides higher throughput and energy efficiency. It can also cover every devices placed in a certain area. To evaluate its performance, we compare CAD-MAC with the existing MAC protocols in general service model.

Keywords

access control; access protocols; directive antennas; personal area networks; CAD-MAC; MAC protocols; coverage adaptive directional medium access control; directional antenna; energy efficiency; frequency 60 GHz; general service model; millimeter wave wireless personal area networks; path loss; service region; Directional antennas; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Media Access Protocol; Performance evaluation; Throughput; Wireless personal area networks; Directional Antenna; IEEE 802.15.3c; MAC; WPAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2012 26th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0867-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2012.38

Filename

6185484