Concurrent Packet Reception Bounds of On-Demand MAC Protocols for Multiple Beam Antennas

Author

Jain, Vivek ; Agrawal, Dharma P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of ECECS, Cincinnati Univ., OH

fYear

2006

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Multiple beam antennas can initiate several data communications concurrently by forming spatially separable beams. However, their concurrent packet reception (CPR) capability is largely governed by the underlying medium access control (MAC) protocol. In this paper, we present an analytical framework to calculate CPR upper bounds of multiple beam antennas using on-demand MAC protocols. The model can be used for adaptively changing transmission probability of the nodes so as to achieve optimal performance. We consider both transmitter-initiated and receiver initiated medium access protocols with uniform and random distribution of nodes. Using the developed model, we compute CPR capability of IEEE 802.11 DCF and ESIF based mechanisms for multiple beam antennas. We verify our model using simulations

Keywords

access protocols; data communication; multibeam antennas; packet radio networks; radio reception; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 DCF; concurrent packet reception bounds; data communications; medium access control protocol; multiple beam antennas; on-demand MAC protocols; random distribution; receiver initiated protocols; transmitter-initiated protocols; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Antenna arrays; Data communication; Directional antennas; Media Access Protocol; Scheduling; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2006 IEEE 17th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0329-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0330-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2006.254207

Filename

4022401