A directional MAC protocol for ad hoc networks

Authors:
Pan Li;Hongqiang Zhai;Yuguang Fang
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Venue:
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Using directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks can greatly improve the spatial reuse and the transmission range. However, it will cause the deafness problem, which greatly impairs the network performance. This paper proposes a new MAC protocol SDMAC (Selectively Directional MAC) that can effectively address the deafness problem and significantly improve the network throughput. Simulation results show that our protocol can achieve a better performance than the existing MAC protocols using directional antennas.