Uplink medium access control for WLANs with multi-beam access point

Author

Wang, Jianfeng ; Fang, Yuguang ; Wu, Dapeng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL

Volume

5

fYear

2005

fDate

2-2 Dec. 2005

Lastpage

3016

Abstract

We consider the CSMA/CA based uplink medium access control (MAC) protocol design for a wireless local area network (WLAN) with the use of multi-beam directional antennas at the access point. Our MAC protocol intends to fully utilize the spatial reuse by allowing as many parallel uplink data transmissions as possible. Since all nodes including the access point run in the contention-based MAC protocol, it is not easy to realize multiple collision-free parallel data transmissions while preserving the ad hoc nature of CSMA/CA based MAC. In addition to improving channel efficiency, we also consider the backward compatibility in our design, whereby a 802.11 limited node can transparently access a multi-beam access point. Our simulation results show that our scheme can improve throughput significantly

Keywords

access protocols; data communication; directive antennas; multibeam antennas; wireless LAN; CSMA-CA; MAC protocol; WLAN; data transmissions; multibeam access point; multibeam directional antennas; parallel uplink data transmissions; uplink medium access control protocol; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Adaptive arrays; Data communication; Directional antennas; Media Access Protocol; Mobile antennas; Multiaccess communication; Throughput; Transceivers; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005. GLOBECOM '05. IEEE

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9414-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1578310

Filename

1578310