A Novel Multichannel Access Scheme with Directional Antennas in WLANs

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10.2991/iccsee.2013.57How to use a DOI?

Keywords

directional antennas, multichannel, medium access control, WLANs

Abstract

Directional antennas in wireless local area networks (WLANs) offer more benefits than traditional omni-directional antennas. Use of directional antenna can increase the spatial reuse and largely reduce the radio interference. In this paper, we attempt to propose a new medium access control (MAC) protocol utilizing the directional antennas and the multi-channels access mechanism without any acknowledgement of location information of the nodes in the network. Simulation results show that our scheme performs better than IEEE 802.11, which produces significant improvements from system throughput, average access delay and packet dropping rate over the omni-directional communications with single channel.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuan Cheng
AU  - Suming Jiang
AU  - Lele Song
PY  - 2013/03
DA  - 2013/03
TI  - A Novel Multichannel Access Scheme with Directional Antennas in WLANs
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Electronics Engineering (ICCSEE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 218
EP  - 221
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccsee.2013.57
DO  - 10.2991/iccsee.2013.57
ID  - Cheng2013/03
ER  -