A MAC protocol based on adaptive beamforming for ad hoc networks

This paper presents a novel slotted MAC (medium access control) protocol for nodes equipped with adaptive antenna array in ad hoc network. The protocol relies on the ability of antenna to uses DOA (direction-of-arrival) information to beamform by placing s in the direction of interferers thus maximize SINR (signal to interference and noise ratio) at the receiver. We studied the performance of the protocol using joint simulation in OPNET and Matlab. We studied the impact of variable number of antenna elements, DOA algorithm, and ing. The performance of our new protocol is compared against one of the recent directional MAC protocols [R.R.N.H.V. Romit Roy Choudhury, Xue Yang, 2002]. We observe that despite the simplicity of our protocol it achieves high throughput.