TY - GEN
T1 - On the connectivity of wireless networks with multiple directional antennas
AU - Xu, Huiwen
AU - Dai, Hong-Ning
AU - Zhao, Qinglin
N1 - Funding Information:
The work described in this paper was supported by Macao Science and Technology Development Fund under Grant No. 037/2010/A and Grant No. 036/2011/A. The authors would like to thank Guodong Han for his excellent comments.
Publisher copyright:
© 2012 IEEE
PY - 2012/12/12
Y1 - 2012/12/12
N2 - The network connectivity is one of important measures of the performance
of wireless networks. However, most of current studies on the network
connectivity only consider either an SOMN network, where each node is
mounted with a single omni-directional antenna, or an SDA network, where
each node is mounted with a single directional antenna. Using multiple
directional antennas instead of a single directional antenna can
potentially improve the network performance. In this paper, we
investigate the connectivity of a novel network, in terms of an MDA
network, where each node is mounted with multiple directional antennas.
We found that MDA networks have much stronger network connectivity than
other existing networks (such as SOMN and SDA networks), and its
connectivity degree heavily depends on the number of antennas, the
beamwidth of each antenna and the path loss factor. The enhancement
mainly owes to the usage of multiple antennas and the longer
transmission range of directional antennas.
AB - The network connectivity is one of important measures of the performance
of wireless networks. However, most of current studies on the network
connectivity only consider either an SOMN network, where each node is
mounted with a single omni-directional antenna, or an SDA network, where
each node is mounted with a single directional antenna. Using multiple
directional antennas instead of a single directional antenna can
potentially improve the network performance. In this paper, we
investigate the connectivity of a novel network, in terms of an MDA
network, where each node is mounted with multiple directional antennas.
We found that MDA networks have much stronger network connectivity than
other existing networks (such as SOMN and SDA networks), and its
connectivity degree heavily depends on the number of antennas, the
beamwidth of each antenna and the path loss factor. The enhancement
mainly owes to the usage of multiple antennas and the longer
transmission range of directional antennas.
KW - Connectivity
KW - Directional Antennas
KW - Multiple Antennas
KW - Wireless Networks
KW - Directive antennas
KW - Wireless networks
KW - Topology
KW - Brain models
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U2 - 10.1109/ICON.2012.6506551
DO - 10.1109/ICON.2012.6506551
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84877852280
SN - 9781467345217
SN - 9781467345231
SN - 9781467345224
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Networks, ICON
SP - 155
EP - 160
BT - 2012 18th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON)
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2012 18th IEEE International Conference on Networks, ICON 2012
Y2 - 12 December 2012 through 14 December 2012
ER -
