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

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

28 Nov- 2 Dec 1994

Firstpage

1701

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1994. GLOBECOM '94. Communications: The Global Bridge., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1820-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1994.513165

Filename

513165