Adaptive Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Dense VANET with Directional Antennas

Author

Xie, Xu ; Huang, Benxiong ; Yang, Shaoshi ; Lv, Tiejun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer more benefits than the traditional antennas with omni-directional mode. With directional antennas, it can increase the spatial reuse of the wireless channel. A higher gain of directional antennas makes terminals a further transmission range and fewer hops to the destination. This paper presents the design, implementation and simulation results of a multi-channel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for dense Vehicular Ad hoc Networks using directional antennas with local beam tables. Numeric results show that our protocol performs better than the existing multichannel protocols in vehicular environment.

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; directive antennas; mobile radio; adaptive multichannel MAC protocol; directional antennas; local beam tables; medium access control protocols; omni-directional mode; vehicular ad hoc network; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Adaptive arrays; Communication switching; Communication system control; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Media Access Protocol; Throughput; Transceivers;

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.2009.4784948

Filename

4784948