On collision-tolerant transmission with directional antennas

Hong-Ning Dai; Kam-Wing Ng; Min-You Wu

doi:10.1109/WCNC.2008.350

On collision-tolerant transmission with directional antennas

Hong-Ning Dai, Kam-Wing Ng, Min-You Wu

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

The application of directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks brings numerous benefits, such as increased spatial reuse and mitigated interferences. Most MAC protocols with directional antennas are based on the RTS/CTS mechanism which works well in wireless ad hoc networks using omnidirectional antennas. However, RTS/CTS frames cannot mitigate the interference completely. Besides, they also contribute a lot to the performance overhead. This paper studies the problem from a new perspective. We have found that the transmission success probability under directional transmission and directional reception is quite high when the antenna beamwidth is quite narrow. Motivated by the analytical results, we design a lightweight MAC protocol without RTS/CTS frames. The preliminary results demonstrate that this new protocol performs better than MAC protocols based on the RTS/CTS mechanism. The results also show that a collision-tolerant transmission is feasible under the narrow beam configuration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1968-1973
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781424419975
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2008.350
Publication status	Published - Apr 2008
Event	2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: 31 Mar 2008 → 3 Apr 2008 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/4489030/proceeding

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Name	IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications and Networking
ISSN (Print)	1525-3511
ISSN (Electronic)	1558-2612

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Conference	2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	31/03/08 → 3/04/08
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/4489030/proceeding

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Dai, H-N, Ng, K-W & Wu, M-Y 2008, On collision-tolerant transmission with directional antennas. in 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications and Networking, IEEE, pp. 1968-1973, 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 31/03/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2008.350

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