Title
An Interference Avoidance Technique for Ad Hoc Networks Employing Array Antennas
Abstract
Array antennas have the potential to increase the capacity of wireless networks, but a distributed beamforming algorithm for maximizing the capacity in asynchronous, decentralized mobile ad hoc networks is yet to be found. In this paper we pursue an interference avoidance policy, based upon channel reciprocity in time-division duplexing, and arrive at a practical signaling technique for array antenna enhanced ad hoc networks in multi-path environments with fading. The beamforming scheme may be incorporated in an RTS-CTS-data-ACK based medium access control protocol without necessitating any exchange of channel state information. In computer simulations we find that the interference avoidance effectively bounds the packet transmission disruption probability, and that the resulting single hop transport capacity increases almost linearly with the number of antennas under certain conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/978-3-540-27824-5_7
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
ad hoc network,channel state information,wireless network,computer simulation,mobile ad hoc network
Mobile ad hoc network,Wireless network,Beamforming,Fading,Computer science,Antenna array,Computer network,Optimized Link State Routing Protocol,Wireless ad hoc network,Channel state information
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
3124
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Hunziker100.34
Jacir Luiz Bordim25718.86
Takashi Ohira36020.18
Shinsuke Tanaka411211.15