DocumentCode
3405362
Title
A Directional MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
Author
Li, Pan ; Zhai, Hongqiang ; Fang, Yuguang
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
fYear
2006
fDate
23-25 Oct. 2006
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
7
Abstract
Using directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks can greatly improve the spatial reuse and the transmission range. However, it will cause the deafness problem, which greatly impairs the network performance. This paper proposes a new MAC protocol SDMAC (Selectively Directional MAC) that can effectively address the deafness problem and significantly improve the network throughput. Simulation results show that our protocol can achieve a better performance than the existing MAC protocols using directional antennas.
Keywords
access protocols; ad hoc networks; directive antennas; SDMAC; ad hoc network; selectively directional MAC protocol; spatial reuse; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Deafness; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Discrete cosine transforms; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Transmitting antennas; Wireless application protocol;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE
Conference_Location
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0617-X
Electronic_ISBN
1-4244-0618-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302164
Filename
4086524
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