DART: Directional Anypath Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

Author

Fang, Xi ; Yang, Dejun ; Xue, Guoliang

Author_Institution

Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

17-22 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

590

Lastpage

599

Abstract

Anypath routing is proposed to improve the performance of wireless networks by exploiting the spatial diversity and broadcast nature of the wireless medium. In this paper, we study anypath routing in wireless networks with directional antennas, and propose DART (Directional Anypath RouTing), a crosslayer design of MAC and routing layers. For the routing layer, we propose two shortest directional anypath routing algorithms based on two antenna models. Our routing algorithms are simple and fast, thus are suitable for implementation in practical protocols. For the MAC layer, we present a directional anycast MAC, which is an enhancement to the IEEE 802.11 MAC, making DART suitable for integration into current systems. Simulation results show that DART can significantly reduce the packet transmission delay.

Keywords

access protocols; directive antennas; diversity reception; routing protocols; wireless LAN; wireless mesh networks; DART; IEEE 802.11 MAC; MAC cross layer design; directional antennas; directional anycast MAC; directional anypath routing algorithm; packet transmission delay; spatial diversity; wireless mesh networks; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Measurement; Routing; Transmitters; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2011 IEEE 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

2155-6806

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1345-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.2011.62

Filename

6076657