MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks Using Smart Antennas for Mitigating Hidden and Deafness Problems

• MA Jing

  Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University

• SEKIYA Hiroo

  Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University

• NAGASAKI Atsushi

  Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University

• KOMURO Nobuyoshi

  Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University

• SAKATA Shiro

  Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University

Abstract

We herein propose a MAC protocol for the smart antenna network, which applies pulse/tone exchange prior to the RTS/CTS handshake process. RTS frame collisions are drastically reduced with little additional overhead due to pulse/tone exchange in the proposed protocol. In addition, the number of exposed nodes is reduced by using smart antennas. Furthermore, since the occurrence of the deafness problem can be identified by pulse/tone exchange failure, retransmission is conducted using a fixed contention window value. Therefore, the wastage of wireless resources due to the deafness problem is reduced. As a result, the network throughput can be effectively improved compared with that for previous protocols. Simulation results demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed protocol.

Journal

• IEICE Transactions on Communications

  IEICE Transactions on Communications E95.B (11), 3545-3555, 2012

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Keywords

• smart antennas
• ad hoc networks
• DMAC
• pulse/tone

Details

• CRID: 1390001204374454784
• NII Article ID: 10031142750
• NII Book ID: AA10826261
• DOI: 10.1587/transcom.e95.b.3545
• ISSN: 17451345
• ISSN: 09168516
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/transcom/E95.B/11/E95.B_3545/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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