Adaptively switching between CSMA and SD-CSMA in multi-antenna based ad hoc networks

Authors:
Pengkai Zhao;Ajit Warrier;Oscar Takeshita;Weijun Zhu;Babak Daneshrad
Affiliations:
Electrical Engineering Dept., UCLA, CA;Silvus Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA;Silvus Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA;Silvus Technologies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA;Electrical Engineering Dept., UCLA, CA
Venue:
MILCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Military communications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) is the conventional medium access method used in wireless Ad Hoc networks. It can be enhanced as a Space-Division based CSMA (namely, SD-CSMA) by using multi-antenna techniques, which allows concurrent link communications in the network. In this paper, we present a MAC design that can adaptively switch between CSMA and SD-CSMA in multi-antenna based Ad Hoc Networks. We first investigate the CSMA mode and the SD-CSMA mode by considering several practical constraints from MIMO physical layer, which include imperfect channel estimation, modulation and coding scheme, MMSE detection, power constraint and packet length. We then propose a selection criterion that adaptively switches between CSMA and SD-CSMA based on current wireless channels among nodes. Simulation results verify that the proposed design can outperform both the CSMA mode and the SD-CSMA mode in terms of aggregate throughput.