SYN-DMAC: a directional MAC protocol for ad hoc networks with synchronization

Author

Wang, Jianfeng ; Fang, Yuguang ; Wu, Dapeng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL

fYear

2005

fDate

17-20 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

2258

Abstract

Directional antenna has received intensive research interests in recent years due to its potential to increase communication efficiency and resilience to interference and jamming. In this paper, we provide a novel directional MAC protocol termed SYN-DMAC for ad hoc networks with synchronization. We demonstrate our proposed SYN-DMAC can efficiently address the major open problems in the directional MAC design such as the deafness problem, the hidden terminal problem, the exposed terminal problem and the head-of-line (HOL) blocking problem. Preliminary simulation results show that our scheme significantly improves throughput in comparison with IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol

Keywords

access protocols; ad hoc networks; directive antennas; jamming; radiofrequency interference; synchronisation; SYN-DMAC protocol; ad hoc network; directional antenna; directional medium access control; jamming; resilience-to-interference; synchronization; Ad hoc networks; Deafness; Directional antennas; Energy efficiency; Global Positioning System; Interference; Jamming; Media Access Protocol; Military communication; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2005. MILCOM 2005. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9393-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2005.1606005

Filename

1606005