Proceedings of the IEEK Conference (대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집)

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Dual-Channel MAC Protocol Using Directional Antennas in Location Aware Ad hoc Networks

위치정보 기반의 Ad hoc 네트워크에서 방향성 안테나를 이용한 Dual-Channel MAC 프로토콜

  • Han, Do-Hyung (Telecommunication Engineering Department Cheju National University) ;
  • Kang, Chang-Nam (Telecommunication Engineering Department Cheju National University) ;
  • Jwa, Jeong-Woo (Telecommunication Engineering Department Cheju National University)
  • 한도형 (제주대학교 공과대학 통신공학과) ;
  • 강창남 (제주대학교 공과대학 통신공학과) ;
  • 좌정우 (제주대학교 공과대학 통신공학과)
  • Published : 2005.11.26
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Abstract

Ad hoc MAC protocols using directional antennas can be used to improve the network capacity. Directional antennas have a Deafness problem and decrease throughput of the network caused by increasing backoff duration. Dual channel protocols have been proposed to mitigate the Deafness and hidden node problems. In this paper, we propose a dual channel MAC protocol using a directional antenna to mitigate the Deafness problem and increase the network capacity. The performance of the proposed Ad hoc MAC protocol is confirmed by computer simulations using Qualnet ver. 3.8 simulator.

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