Title :
Distributed Medium Access for a Large Wireless Mesh Network with Multiple Antenna Elements on Each Node
Author :
Bin Zhao ; Yingbo Hua
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Riverside, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper proposes a distributed MAC scheme for a large network of wireless routers with multiple antennas and characterizes its throughput gain over its single antenna counterpart in large network communications.
Keywords :
access protocols; antenna arrays; radio networks; telecommunication network routing; distributed MAC scheme; distributed medium access; large wireless mesh network; multiple antenna elements; wireless routers; AWGN; Government; Interchannel interference; Large-scale systems; Media Access Protocol; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Throughput; Transmitting antennas; Wireless mesh networks; MIMO; Mesh networks; media access control; opportunistic scheduling;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0727-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366748
