Enabling multi-hop on mmWave WPANs

Author

Wang, Jing ; Prasad, R. Venkatesha ; Niemegeers, I.G.M.M.

Author_Institution

WMC/IRCTR, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

371

Lastpage

375

Abstract

The booming multimedia applications are demanding multi-hop communications in high data rate millimeter wave radio WPANs (Wireless Personal Area Networks). However, unable to make use of space reuse, the IEEE 802.15.3 dependent piconet scheme shows its limit when the number of inter-connected piconet grows. In this paper, we introduce the concept of a bridging device - the via to setup multi-hop link across multiple piconets. A mini-superframe scheme, different switching strategies and a rendezvous scheme have been adopted and investigated. The simulation result shows this proposed approach has great potential to support the fast route discovery in high data rate multimedia applications.

Keywords

millimetre wave devices; multimedia communication; personal area networks; telecommunication network routing; IEEE 802.15.3 standard; bridging device concept; high data rate millimeter wave radio; mmWave WPAN; multihop communication; multimedia application; piconet scheme; routing scheme; wireless personal area network; Bridges; HDTV; High definition video; Media Access Protocol; Multimedia systems; Personal area networks; Space technology; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless communication; Wireless personal area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communication Systems. 2008. ISWCS '08. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Reykjavik

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2488-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2489-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWCS.2008.4726080

Filename

4726080