A MAC Protocol for Multi-Packet Ad-Hoc Wireless Network Utilizing Multi-Antenna

Author

Sato, Norihiko ; Fujii, Takeo

Author_Institution

Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel multi-antenna utilization scheme for avoiding the packet congestion around the gateway (GW) of the ad-hoc wireless networks. In our previous work, we have discussed the number of antenna design for suitable for packet congestion around the GW. However, only multi-user access with multi-antenna is considered at the receiver node. Moreover, we do not consider the effective media access control (MAC) protocol for this kind of networks. In this paper, in order to realize the effective multi-packet access ad-hoc wireless networks, we consider applying multi-input multi-output (MIMO) technique for packet transmission to the next hop node, and we also propose a MAC protocol avoiding the hidden node problem for supporting the multi-packet access with multi-antenna at the nodes around the GW.

Keywords

MIMO communication; access protocols; ad hoc networks; multifrequency antennas; MAC protocol; MIMO system; antenna design; gateway; media access control protocol; multiantenna utilization scheme; multiinput multioutput technique; multipacket ad-hoc wireless network; multiuser access; packet congestion; packet transmission; receiver node; Ad hoc networks; Adaptive arrays; Adaptive control; Antenna arrays; MIMO; Media Access Protocol; Programmable control; Receiving antennas; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2308-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2309-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784897

Filename

4784897