A MAC Protocol for Cooperative MIMO Transmissions in Sensor Networks

Author

Yang, Haiming ; Shen, Hsin-Yi ; Sikdar, Biplab

Author_Institution

Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy

fYear

2007

fDate

26-30 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

636

Lastpage

640

Abstract

Cooperative MIMO can achieve higher energy savings and lower delays in distributed systems by allowing nodes to transmit and receive information jointly. In this paper, we develop a new MAC protocol for enabling packet transmissions using cooperative MIMO. The paper also develops analytical models for evaluating the packet error probability, energy consumption and packet delays associated with the proposed MAC protocol. The analysis is validated against simulation results using the NS- 2 simulator. Our results show that the proposed MAC protocol has lower delays and lower energy consumption as compared to regular point to point MAC protocols.

Keywords

MIMO communication; access protocols; error statistics; wireless sensor networks; MAC protocol; cooperative MIMO transmission; distributed system; energy consumption; packet delay; packet error probability; wireless sensor network; Analytical models; Bit error rate; Delay; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Error probability; MIMO; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2007. GLOBECOM '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1042-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1043-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.124

Filename

4411034