Paper Info
Title
LOS discovery in 3D for highly directional transceivers.
Abstract
Directional Radio Frequency (RF) / Free-Space-Optical (FSO) transceivers have the potential to play a significant role in future generation wireless networks. They are advantageous in terms of improved spectrum utilization, higher data transfer rate, and lower probability of interception from unwanted sources. Despite these advantages, communications using directional transceivers require establishment and maintenance of line-of-sight (LOS). Thus, establishment of the communication link or neighbor discovery plays an important role in mobile ad hoc networks with RF/FSO directional transceivers. We consider two nodes (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or Quadcopters) hovering in 3D space, each with one directional transceiver mounted on a mechanically steerable spherical structure/head, with which they can scan 3600 in the horizontal plane and 3600 in the vertical plane. We propose a novel scheme that deals with the problem of automatic discovery and establishment of LOS alignment between these nodes. We performed extensive simulations to show the effectiveness of the proposed neighbor discovery method. The results show that, using such mechanically steerable directional transceivers, it is possible to establish communication links to similar neighboring nodes within minimal discovery times.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
IEEE Military Communications Conference
Directional,3D,RF,FSO,Neighbor Discovery,Ad Hoc,VANET,MANET
Field
DocType
ISSN
Mobile ad hoc network,Mobile computing,Wireless network,Antenna (radio),Transceiver,Computer science,Computer network,Radio frequency,Electronic engineering,Wireless ad hoc network,Neighbor Discovery Protocol
Conference
2155-7578
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahmudur Khan183.17
Suman Sankar Bhunia2186.40
Murat Yuksel344561.52
Shamik Sengupta448353.08