Tone based MAC protocol for use with adaptive array antennas

Author

Singh, Harkirat ; Singh, Suresh

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Portland State Univ., OR, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

21-25 March 2004

Firstpage

1246

Abstract

This work presents a tone-based 802.11b protocol for use in wireless networks where nodes are equipped with adaptive array antennas. The protocol relies on the ability of the antenna and angle of arrival (AoA) algorithms to identify the direction of transmitters and then beamform appropriately to maximize SINR (signal to interference and noise ratio) at the receiver. The performance of the protocol is evaluated using detailed simulation in OPNET and Matlab where we demonstrate the benefits of using adaptive antenna arrays. The impact of using different number of antenna elements is also studied for this environment.

Keywords

access protocols; adaptive antenna arrays; array signal processing; direction-of-arrival estimation; wireless LAN; SINR; WLAN; adaptive array antennas; angle of arrival algorithms; antenna elements; receiver; signal to interference and noise ratio; tone based MAC protocol; transmitters; wireless networks; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Directive antennas; Media Access Protocol; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. WCNC. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8344-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2004.1311367

Filename

1311367