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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2008.12.4.627

A Media Access Control for Spatial Reuse in Wireless Ad hoc Networks  

Qingxian, Pu (인제대학교 전자정보통신공학과)
Hwang, Won-Joo (인제대학교 정보통신공학과)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.12, no.4, 2008 , pp. 627-635 More about this Journal
Abstract
Using directional antenna in wireless network can offer many advantages including significant decrease of interference, increase of spatial reuse and possibility of improving network capacity. However, existing 802.11 MAC is designed for use of omni-directional antenna then those advantages can not be shown in that MAC protocol when it uses directional antenna. In this paper, we present a MAC protocol specifically designed for directional antenna to achieve spatial reuse and improve capacity of MAC protocol. Simulation result shows the advantages of our proposal in comparison with existing MAC in terms of end-to-end delay and network throughput.
Keywords
Ad hoc Networks; Directional Antenna; Medium Access Control; Spatial Reuse;
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