Title
Indoor Wireless Planning Using Smart Antennas
Abstract
This paper considers the problem of indoor wireless planning using smart antennas. Smart antennas have gained much attention in wireless networking because of their capability in providing more spatial reuse and increased network capacity. Recent research has demonstrated their effectiveness in indoor environments where omni-directional antennas have been traditionally the dominant technology. Much of the work, however, assumes that a network is already deployed and focuses on scheduling antenna patterns. In this work, we investigate finding a wireless plan for an indoor environment where the wireless plan specifies minimum number of antennas required to provide complete coverage of the environment as well as the location, transmission power and beam pattern for each antenna. This problem is more challenging than radio planning using omnidirectional antennas because of the special shape of antenna beams. Both single-beam and multi-beam antenna patterns are considered and Integer Linear Programming formulations are provided for computing the minimum cost wireless plan. Moreover, to solve large-scale instances of the problem an efficient polynomial-time heuristic is proposed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134251
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
network capacity,integer linear programming formulation,scheduling,polynomial-time heuristic,singlebeam antenna pattern,radio planning,integer programming,multibeam antenna pattern,omnidirectional antenna,linear programming,transmission power,radio networks,antenna pattern scheduling,wireless networking,telecommunication network planning,indoor wireless planning,smart antenna,polynomials,omnidirectional antennas,wireless communication,interference,polynomial time,wireless network,signal to noise ratio,directional antenna,planning
Omnidirectional antenna,Wireless network,Antenna diversity,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Reconfigurable antenna,Smart antenna,Conformal antenna,Wi-Fi array
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1930-529X E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-9267-1
978-1-4244-9267-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ali Abbasi100.34
Majid Ghaderi227131.77