TY - GEN
T1 - A proactive direction based routing for directional ad hoc networks
AU - Li, Yang
AU - Man, Hong
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593058
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593058
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749043230
SN - 1424400856
SN - 9781424400850
T3 - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
SP - 416
EP - 420
BT - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
T2 - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
Y2 - 8 January 2006 through 10 January 2006
ER -