Performance of switched-beam antennas for Wireless Mesh Networks using Synchronous Collision Resolution protocol

Author

Panngam, Sineenart ; Uthansakul, Peerapong ; Uthansakul, Monthippa

Author_Institution

Sch. of Telecommun. Eng., Suranaree Univ. of Technol., Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

fYear

2010

fDate

3-5 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

430

Lastpage

433

Abstract

The use of switched-beam antennas for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) has gained a lot of attention recently. However, it has not been concluded yet which protocol is suitable for this approach. One interesting protocol named as Synchronous Collision Resolution (SCR) has been proposed to manage the packet schedule between mesh routers. The SCR concept is of advantage over other protocols such as CSMA/CA and TDMA. Nevertheless, the evaluation of SCR protocol has never been performed in literatures so far. Therefore, in this paper, the study of switched-beam antennas in cooperating with SCR protocol is proposed by concerning both desired and interference mesh routers. The simulation results confirm the success of using switched-beam antennas for WMN using SCR protocol.

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; carrier sense multiple access; interference (signal); routing protocols; time division multiple access; wireless mesh networks; CSMA/CA; TDMA; interference mesh routers; packet schedule; switched beam antennas; synchronous collision resolution protocol; wireless mesh networks; Antennas; Interference; Protocols; Queueing analysis; Switches; Thyristors; Wireless mesh networks; Beamforming; Smart Antennas; Switched-beam antennas; Wireless Mesh Networks(WMNs);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Application (ICCIA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tianjin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8597-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIA.2010.6141628

Filename

6141628