Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784739
