Title :
Using Adaptive Antenna Arrays in Mobile Ad hoc Network with Multihop-RTS MAC Protocol
Author :
Guama, J.A. ; Saad, N.M.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh
Abstract :
In this paper, we consider the potential use of adaptive arrays to improve the performance of multihop-RTS MAC protocol. In addition to this, we proposed to improve the performance of this MAC protocol by using two omni-directional control packets. These control packets are busy node list (BNL) and overall link state table (OLST). The performance of the protocol is evaluated and compared with existing MMAC that uses switched-beam antenna and IEEE 802.11. The results show that MMAC can produce improvement in throughput when using adaptive arrays and the two omnidirectional control packets.
Keywords :
access protocols; ad hoc networks; adaptive antenna arrays; mobile radio; IEEE 802.11; adaptive antenna arrays; busy node list; mobile ad hoc network; multihop-RTS MAC protocol; omni-directional control packets; overall link state table; switched-beam antenna; Access protocols; Ad hoc networks; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Media Access Protocol; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Throughput; Wireless communication; Adaptive Antenna Array; Medium Access Control; Mobile Ad-hoc Network;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2007. WOCN '07. IFIP International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1005-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-1005-3
DOI :
10.1109/WOCN.2007.4284162
