A Topology-Independent Broadcasting Protocol in Ad Hoc Networks with MIMO Links

Author

Wang, Xiabing ; Li, Changle

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi´´an, China

Volume

3

fYear

2010

fDate

12-14 April 2010

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

223

Abstract

Currently multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems are becoming more and more popular in wireless communication networks. Several Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols have been developed for mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) with MIMO links. Most of these existing protocols either cannot support broadcast service or are topology-dependent. In this paper, an efficient protocol which is topology-independent and also supports broadcast for MIMO ad hoc networks, termed topology-independent broadcast (MIMO-TIB) is proposed. To evaluate its performance, MIMO-TIB is applied in several different networks with MIMO links. The analysis results show that MIMO-TIB improves the capacity in broadcasting. Further, MIMO-TIB is independent of topology changes, which makes it can be applied in ad hoc networks in which nodes are mobile.

Keywords

MIMO communication; access protocols; ad hoc networks; mobile radio; radio links; MAC protocols; MIMO links; medium access control protocol; mobile ad hoc networks; multiple input multiple output systems; topology-independent broadcasting protocol; wireless communication networks; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Broadcasting; Laboratories; MIMO; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network topology; Scheduling; Spread spectrum communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6327-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6328-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMC.2010.291

Filename

5471563