A proactive direction based routing for directional ad hoc networks

Yang Li, Hong Man

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Abstract

Ad hoc network with directional antennas has become an active research topic because of the potential capacity increase through spatial reuse. Properly designed MAC and routing protocol is the key to the feature of spatial reuse. Many MAC protocols for directional ad hoc networks are based on IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordinated Function (DCF). Simply applying directional transmit of RTS/CTS/ACK packet can cause serious 'deafness' problem. In this paper, an alternate solution of MAC protocol is given to mitigate the 'deafness' problem. Popular ad hoc routing protocols are all based on next-hop, i.e, for some destination node, one unique neighbor node is chosen to relay the data packet. This paper proposes a routing protocol based on sending direction , i.e., for a given destination node, only the sending direction is known and one neighbor node in this direction is chosen to forward the data packet. Details of next-direction discovery and maintenance process is described and simulation is conducted to test the routing protocols' effectiveness and efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
Pages416-420
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 8 Jan 200610 Jan 2006

Publication series

Name2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
Volume1

Conference

Conference2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period8/01/0610/01/06

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