A New Beacon Mechanism for 60 GHz Wireless Communication Networks

Author

Shao, Huai-Rong ; Ngo, Chiu ; Kweon, ChangYeul

Author_Institution

Samsung Electron. R&D Center, San Jose, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper proposes a new beacon mechanism for 60 GHz wireless communication networks that can greatly reduce beacon overhead caused by omni-directional transmission. Short common beacon with low-rate omni-directional transmission and individual beacon with high-rate directional transmission are combined to carry all required information in the conventional beacon. A short common beacon may only include part of the physical layer preamble, or preamble with physical layer header or plus MAC header to reduce the beacon transmission time. Numerical analysis verified that the proposed beacon scheme can improve MAC efficiency significantly.

Keywords

access protocols; radio networks; MAC header; beacon mechanism; frequency 60 GHz; numerical analysis; omni-directional transmission; wireless communication network; Directive antennas; Frequency; High definition video; Numerical analysis; Physical layer; Propagation losses; Research and development; Space technology; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2308-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2309-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784739

Filename

4784739