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A MNDB Protocol for Reliable Directional Broadcast  

Cha, Woo-Suk (Research Center for Ubiquitous Information Appliances Chonnam National University)
Kim, Eun-Mi (Department of Computer Engineering Chonnam National University)
Bae, Ho-Young (Department of Computer Engineering Chonnam National University)
Lee, Bae-Ho (Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Chonnam National University)
Cho, Gi-Hwan (Division of Electronic & Information Engineering Chonbuk University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.43, no.11, 2006 , pp. 118-127 More about this Journal
Abstract
The wireless transmission medium inherently broadcasts a signal to all neighbor nodes in the transmission range. Existing asynchronous MAC protocols do not provide a concrete solution for reliable broadcast in link layer. This mainly comes from that an omnidirectional broadcasting causes to reduce the network performance due to the explosive collisions and contentions. This paper proposes a directional broadcast protocol by using neighborhood information in the link layer based o,1 directional antennas, named MNDB (MAC protocol with Neighborhood for reliable Directional Broadcast). This protocol makes use of neighborhood information and DMACA (Directional Multiple Access and Collision Avoidance) scheme through 4-way handshake to support a reliable directional broadcast. To analyze its performance, MNDB protocol si compared with $RMDB^{[1]}$, the protocol 2 of reference [3], and IEEE 802.11 $protocol^{[9]}$, in terms of the number of collisions, the number of dropped packets, the number of redundant packets, and broadcast delay.
Keywords
Directional Antennas; Directional Broadcast; MAC protocol;
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