9Square: A New Architecture for MIMO WMN

Author

Wang, Dapeng ; Yang, Shoubao ; Hu, Yun ; Teng, Da

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei

fYear

2006

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a pipelined prototype for a planned 2.4 GHz wireless MIMO mesh network. The prototype design and channel allocation method are investigated in detail. MIMO´s interference cancellation algorithm and MIMO-MU model are used to allow more parallel streams at one time, which greatly improves the throughput both for UDP and TCP transmission. The three non-overlapped channels are all used in this prototype. Channel 1 and 11 are assigned to backbones of mesh network and channel 6 is assigned to the connections between wireless clients and router. Simulation results by NS2 are analyzed at the end of this paper. Comparing with normal multi-channel-multi-interface mesh networks, the average throughput improves by more than 80% and 200%, while the packet delay is reduced by approximately 50% and 70% for 2-hop and 4-hop scenarios respectively

Keywords

MIMO communication; channel allocation; interference suppression; radiofrequency interference; telecommunication network planning; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; wireless channels; 2.4 GHz; 9Square; MIMO WMN; TCP transmission; UDP transmission; channel allocation method; interference cancellation algorithm; network router; nonoverlapped channels; packet delay; wireless MIMO mesh network; wireless clients; Channel allocation; Frequency; Interference cancellation; MIMO; Mesh networks; Prototypes; Spine; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Wireless mesh networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2006. WiCOM 2006.International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0517-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCOM.2006.246

Filename

4149423