Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CMC.2010.291
