Title :
Performance improvement in a multihop packet radio network using multiple antennas
Author :
Wong, Victor ; Leung, Cyril
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
fDate :
28 Nov- 2 Dec 1994
Abstract :
Studies the performance improvement brought by the use of multiple antennas for each node in a multihop packet radio network (PRN). The authors propose that the antenna with the largest received power is chosen to be decoded. Four transmission strategies based on the MFR (most forward with fixed range), NFP (nearest with forward progress), MAD (minimal angular deviation), and ARR (angular deviation to transmission range ratio) routing schemes are studied. Results show that more than one antenna for each node in a PRN can improve the performance of all four transmission strategies substantially in a Rayleigh fading environment
Keywords :
Rayleigh channels; antenna arrays; fading; packet radio networks; telecommunication network routing; ARR routing schemes; MAD routing scheme; MFR routing scheme; NFP routing scheme; Rayleigh fading environment; angular deviation to transmission range ratio; minimal angular deviation; most forward with fixed range; multihop packet radio network; multiple antennas; nearest with forward progress; performance improvement; transmission strategies; Decoding; Frequency; Intelligent networks; Packet radio networks; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Repeaters; Routing; Spread spectrum communication; Transmitting antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 1994. GLOBECOM '94. Communications: The Global Bridge., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1820-X
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1994.513165
