Neighbor discovery in wireless networks and the coupon collector's problem
Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Directional neighbor discovery in 60 GHz indoor wireless networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
A warning based preemptive routing scheme for QoS maintenance in wireless ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 6th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks
Many-to-many communication for mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Directional neighbor discovery in 60 GHz indoor wireless networks
Performance Evaluation
A novel neighbor discovery protocol for ultraviolet wireless networks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Neighbor discovery in wireless networks with multipacket reception
MobiHoc '11 Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
Identifying Neighbor and Connectivity of Wireless Sensor Networks with Poisson Point Process
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Efficient algorithms for neighbor discovery in wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Journal of High Speed Networks
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Many MAC sub-layer protocols for supporting the usage of directional antennas in ad hoc networks have been proposed in literature. However, there remain two open issues that are yet to be resolved completely. First, in order to fully exploit the spatial diversity gains possible due to the use of directional antennas, it is essential to shift to the exclusive usage of directional antennas for the transmission and reception of all the MAC layer frames. This would facilitate maximal spatial reuse and will efface the phenomena of asymmetry in gain. Second, in the presence of mobility the MAC protocol should incorporate mechanisms by which a node can efficiently discover and track its neighbors. In this paper we propose PMAC, a new MAC protocol that addresses both the issues in an integrated way. PMAC incorporates an efficient mechanism for neighbor discovery, and a scheduling based medium sharing that allows for exclusive directional transmissions and receptions. We perform analysis and simulations to understand the performance of our scheme. We find that each node, on average, can achieve a per node utilization of about 80% in static and about 45% in mobile scenarios. In terms of throughput, our protocol is seen to outperform both the traditional IEEE 802.11 and previously proposed MAC protocols for use with directional antennas in ad hoc networks