Multi-sector antenna performance in dense wireless networks

  • Authors:

  • Henrik Lundgren;Anand Prabhu Subramanian;Theodoros Salonidis;Marianna Carrera;Pascal Le Guyadec

  • Affiliations:

  • Thomson, Paris, France;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA;Thomson, Paris, France;Thomson, Paris, France;Thomson, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the tenth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Sectorized antennas provide an attractive solution to increase wireless network capacity through higher spatial reuse. Despite their increasing popularity, the real-world performance characteristics of such antennas in dense wireless mesh networks are not well understood. In this demo, we demonstrate our multi-sector antenna prototypes and their performance through video streaming over an indoor wireless network in the presence of interfering nodes. We use our graphical tool to vary the sender, receiver, and interferer antenna configurations and the resulting performance is directly visible in the video quality displayed at the receiver.