A BIBD based MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks with directional antennas

Author

Boggia, G. ; Camarda, P. ; Cormio, C. ; Grieco, L.A.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettrotec. ed Elettron., Politec. di Bari, Bari

fYear

2008

fDate

25-25 July 2008

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

29

Abstract

The use of directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks can significantly improve global performance due to a high spatial channel reuse. Nevertheless, its introduction poses new location dependent problems related to the MAC protocol. In this paper, the Balanced Incomplete Block Design theory has been exploited to develop a new MAC protocol for wireless ad hoc networks using directional antennas. The protocol is highly scalable. Moreover, preliminary simulation results show that it can provide a high number of concurrent communications, depending on the number of directional antennas mounted on each node, and great fairness in bandwidth sharing.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; bandwidth allocation; directive antennas; wireless channels; MAC protocol; balanced incomplete block design; bandwidth sharing; directional antennas; spatial channel reuse; wireless ad hoc networks; Adaptive arrays; Deafness; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Helical antennas; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Transmitters; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, 2008. CNSDSP 2008. 6th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Graz

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1875-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1876-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSNDSP.2008.4610783

Filename

4610783