Title :
A Threshold Based MAC Protocol for Cooperative MIMO Transmissions
Author :
Yang, Haiming ; Shen, Hsin-Yi ; Sikdar, Biplab ; Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECSE, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY
Abstract :
This paper develops a distributed, threshold based MAC protocol for cooperative multi input multi output (MIMO) transmissions in distributed wireless systems. The protocol uses a thresholding scheme that is updated dynamically based on the queue length at the sending node to achieve low power transmissions while ensuring stability of the transmission queues at the nodes. Simulation results are provided to evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol and compare it against regular point to point as well as fixed group size cooperative MIMO MAC protocols.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; access protocols; cooperative MIMO transmission; distributed wireless system; multiinput multioutput transmission; threshold based MAC protocol; Bit error rate; Communication system control; Energy consumption; MIMO; Media Access Protocol; Peer to peer computing; Stability; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM 2009, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Rio de Janeiro
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3512-8
Electronic_ISBN :
0743-166X
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062274
