Resource allocation in wireless networks using directional antennas

Author

Jawhar, Imad ; Wu, Jie

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Technol., United Arab Emirates Univ., Al-Ain

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 March 2006

Lastpage

327

Abstract

With the continued increase of speed and capacities of computing devices and the growing needs of people for mobile computing capabilities, Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have gained a lot of interest from the research community. Quality of service (QoS) provisioning in MANETs is an essential component that is needed to support multimedia and real-time applications. On the other hand, directional antenna technology provides the capability for considerable increase in spatial reuse which is essential in the wireless medium. In this paper, a bandwidth reservation protocol for QoS routing in TDMA-based MANETs using directional antennas is presented. The routing algorithm allows a source node to reserve a path to a particular destination with the needed bandwidth which is represented by the number of slots in the data phase of the TDMA frame. Further optimizations to improve the efficiency and resource utilization of the network are provided

Keywords

ad hoc networks; bandwidth allocation; mobile computing; quality of service; resource allocation; routing protocols; time division multiple access; MANET; QoS; QoS routing; TDMA-based MANET; bandwidth reservation protocol; directional antennas; mobile ad hoc network; mobile computing; optimization; quality of service; resource allocation; wireless network; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Directional antennas; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile computing; Quality of service; Resource management; Routing protocols; Time division multiple access; Wireless networks; Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs); directional antennas.; quality of service (QoS); routing; time division multiple access (TDMA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2006. PerCom 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2518-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOM.2006.45

Filename

1604823