采用定向天线的MANET邻居发现算法研究

在无线多跳移动自组织网(MANET)中采用定向天线(特别是波束成形天线)有一系列优点。这一技术能增加单跳传输的距离、减小干扰、提高空间复用度,从而能显著增大系统容量。然而,适应于采用全向天线的传统MANET的媒质接入控制(MAC)、功率控制、邻居发现、路由等方法必须作相应的修改。在分析前人相关研究的基础上,针对MANET使用定向天线情况下的邻居发现机制及算法进行了深入研究,提出了2种采用定向天线的MANET的邻居发现算法———非辅助TD模式的定向邻居发现算法与非辅助TRD模式的定向邻居发现算法。这2种算法与目前已提出的其他定向邻居发现算法的最大区别是,它们不需要依赖GPS或其他辅助信息就能独立实现邻居发现。     

基于定向天线的移动自组网路由协议研究

同等功耗下,定向天线能够产生更高的增益,提供更大的传输范围,提高网络的空间复用度和吞吐量,天线选择的方向性又降低了邻近结点之间的相互干扰,采用定向天线能够给移动自组网带来潜在性能的提高。对基于定向天线的移动自组网路由协议进行研究,简单介绍了定向天线,总结了引入定向天线产生的路由问题,对现有的一些典型定向路由协议进行了分类、介绍和比较,最后对引入定向天线带来的好处进行了分析。     

基于定向天线的WSN路由关键技术研究

定向天线相比于全向天线可提高无线传感器网络的吞吐量,减少通信信道之间的干扰,提高网络信噪比,且能有效提升无线传感器网络路由协议DRP的性能,本文针对定向天线技术在无线传感器网络的实现方法,分析其应用优势,并对定向路由中的主要技术进行分析。     

基于地理位置的MANET定向路由机制研究

基于地理位置的MANET定向路由算法的基本思想是利用节点的地理位置信息和定向天线来进行数据转发。由于不需要维护明确的路由,它的网络扩展性和动态适应性好,抗干扰能力强。介绍了地理位置路由的特点和分类,总结了设计基于地理位置的移动自组网定向路由协议时须考虑的问题,并对其位置服务机制和数据转发策略进行了定性分析与比较。     

定向Ad hoc网络MAC组网技术研究

定向天线利用数字信号处理技术产生空间定向波束,将发射信号能量集中在某一个或者某些特定的方向上进行辐射,其应用于传统的Ad hoc网络中能够有效减少相邻节点间的互干扰,并能通过增加同时传输的节点对数达到显著提升网络空间复用率和容量的目的。首先简单介绍了定向天线和定向通信特点,然后对定向Ad hoc网络MAC层组网关键技术进行了综述,并对定向邻居发现协议、空分TDMA动态时隙分配机制、定向波束对准与跟踪技术等进行介绍和梳理,最后总结现有研究不足并指出未来重点研究方向。     

基于定向天线技术的机间数据链DP-CLMA协议

机间数据链中使用定向天线技术能充分利用定向数据传输良好的隐蔽性、抗干扰性和抗截获性,但同时也带来一些难点问题.提出一种基于定向天线技术的机间数据链多址接入协议——动态优先级链式多址接入( Dynamic Priority-Chain Link Multiple Access,DP-CLMA)协议.针对难点问题,给出协议...     

一种基于定向天线的自组网多址接入协议

文中提出一种基于定向天线的自组织网多址接入协议DA-STDMA。该协议利用方向性天线定向波束增益特性,保证在高速可靠传输条件下,提升系统的容量,同时可以防止信息截获,提升系统的抗干扰性能。经过理论计算,DA-STDMA协议在信道利用率上与采用全向天线相比有显著提高。文中建立了DA-STDMA协议仿真模型,通过对比空间复用度、网络吞吐量等系统性能,DA-STDMA协议利用定向天线比全向天线性能有明显提升。同时仿真研究也表明,定向天线的定位算法对整个系统建链的收敛时间产生一定影响。     

基于双忙音的无冲突多址接入协议

在Ad Hoc网络中,隐终端和暴露终端的存在严重影响了网络的通信能力.文中详细讨论了隐终端和暴露终端问题.在此基础上,介绍一种新的可完全避免分组冲突的MAC层协议--双忙音多址接入(DBTMA)协议.该协议采用RTS/CTS对话机制来预约信道,通过引入两个窄带带外忙音信号来避免分组间冲突,彻底解决了隐终端和暴露终端问题,提高了网络的吞吐量.     

移动Ad Hoc网中的定向信道接入协议

为了提高移动Ad Hoc网信道利用率和吞吐量、克服隐藏终端问题，使用定向天线的信道接入(MAC)协议已被提出。本文介绍了基于移动Ad Hoc网的定向MAC协议，分类描述了四种定向MAC协议(全向RTS-全向CTS协议、定向RTS-全向CTS协议、定向RTS一定向CTS协议以及多跳RTS协议)，比较分析了其特点并指出了现有协议中存在的一些问题及今后可能的研究方向。     

嵌入服务通告与发现的ZRP协议

服务通告和发现在MANET(Mobile Ad hoc Networks)网络中,是一个十分重要的组成部分.现有的服务通告和发现协议不是为MANET网络设计的.文章提出了一个适合MANET、基于ZRP(Zone Routing Protocol)的服务通告及发现协议.服务的通告与发现存在于ZRP路由控制分组中,避免了周期性的通告给MANET网络带来的负载,节约了有限的带宽和设备的能耗.     

Power-controlled medium access for ad hoc networks with directional antennas

Directional antennas have the potential to significantly improve the throughput of a wireless ad hoc network. At the same time, energy consumption can be considerably reduced if the network implements per-packet transmission power control. Typical MAC protocols for ad hoc networks (e.g., the IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc mode) were designed for wireless devices with omnidirectional antennas. When used with directional antennas, such protocols suffer from several medium access problems, including interference from minor lobes and hidden-terminal problems, which prevent full exploitation of the potential of directional antennas. In this paper, we propose a power-controlled MAC protocol for directional antennas that ameliorates these problems. Our protocol allows for dynamic adjustment of the transmission power for both data and clear-to-send (CTS) packets to optimize energy consumption. It provides a mechanism for permitting interference-limited concurrent transmissions and choosing the appropriate tradeoff between throughput and energy consumption. The protocol enables nodes to implement load control in a distributed manner, whereby the total interference in the neighborhood of a receiver is upper-bounded. Simulation results demonstrate that the combined gain from concurrent transmissions using directional antennas and power control results in significant improvement in network throughput and considerable reduction in energy consumption.     

Power-aware ad hoc networks with directional antennas: Models and analysis

Directional antennas offer numerous benefits for wireless ad hoc networks, such as extended communication range, better spatial reuse, improved capacity and suppressed interference. In this work, we study analytically the benefits of transmission power control on throughput and energy consumption in a uniformly distributed power-aware ad hoc network where nodes are equipped with directional antennas. We construct an interference model for directional antenna based on a honey grid model to calculate the maximum interference. We further derive a directional collision avoidance model and based on the integrated interference/collision model and signal to interference requirements (SIR), we present the maximum end-to-end throughput under the maximum interference. We further investigate the effect of collision on the energy consumption and propose an energy consumption model that utilizes all aspects of energy wastage.     

The design of a channel-access protocol for a wireless ad hoc network with sectored directional antennas

A packet scheduler and a medium access control (MAC) protocol are presented for a direct-sequence spread-spectrum, wireless ad hoc network that contains a mix of nodes with directional antennas and nodes with omnidirectional antennas. The scheduler and MAC protocol are designed to prevent the co-site interference problem that arises in some types of nodes employing directional antennas. It is shown that the presence of nodes with directional antennas exacerbates the vulnerability of the network to the receiver blocking problem. A modification of the MAC protocol is presented that mitigates the receiver blocking problem, and it is shown to improve the performance of a network that includes nodes with directional antennas.     

Cochannel Interference in Cellular Fixed Broadband Access Systems with Directional Antennas

The Cellular Fixed Broadband Access System for LMCS (Local Multipoint Communication Services) is aiming to provide broadband services to fixed subscribers through wireless access. A representative LMCS scenario involves a cellular system design with the entire allocated bandwidth being used in each cell and with a highly directional antenna employed at the subscriber. The LMCS system designs rely on assumed information regarding radio propagation phenomena in the anticipated coverage areas. The research reported here, therefore, has the objective of verifying such information by theoretical modeling and simulation. Simulation and analysis have been used to study the effects of a number of factors on the system performance and interference characteristics of such a LMCS system. The investigated factors include beamwidth and gain ratio of directional antennas, sectorization of hub antennas, propagation exponent, lognormal shadowing, site diversity and transmitter power control. Both models of LOS (line of sight) and NLOS (non-line of sight) have been investigated in this work. The simulation results demonstrate that highly directional antennas at the subscribers can dramatically improve the system performance for both uplink and downlink. The system design with frequency reuse of one is examined, and it is confirmed that an outage of 0.9% for a NLOS system could be achieved by using narrow beam antennas of 3 degrees with site diversity and power control techniques employed. Under the condition of LOS available for the desired links, the outage can be expected to be as low as 0.3%.     

Multi‐channel power‐controlled directional MAC for wireless mesh networks

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged recently as a technology for providing high‐speed last mile connectivity in next‐generation wireless networks. Several MAC protocols that exploit multiple channels and directional antennas have been proposed in the literature to increase the performance of WMNs. However, while these techniques can improve the wireless medium utilization by reducing radio interference and the impact of the exposed nodes problem, they can also exacerbate the hidden nodes problem. Therefore, efficient MAC protocols need to be carefully designed to fully exploit the features offered by multiple channels and directional antennas. In this paper we propose a novel Multi‐Channel Power‐Controlled Directional MAC protocol (MPCD‐MAC) for nodes equipped with multiple network interfaces and directional antennas. MPCD‐MAC uses the standard RTS‐CTS‐DATA‐ACK exchange procedure. The novel difference is the transmission of the RTS and CTS packets in all directions on a separate control channel, while the DATA and ACK packets are transmitted only directionally on an available data channel at the minimum required power, taking into account the interference generated on already active connections. This solution spreads the information on wireless medium reservation (RTS/CTS) to the largest set of neighbors, while data transfers take place directionally on separate channels to increase spatial reuse. Furthermore, power control is used to limit the interference produced over active nodes. We measure the performance of MPCD‐MAC by simulation of several realistic network scenarios, and we compare it with other approaches proposed in the literature. The results show that our scheme increases considerably both the total traffic accepted by the network and the fairness among competing connections. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Connectivity of cognitive radio ad hoc networks with directional antennas

In cognitive radio ad hoc networks, omni-directional antennas are typically used at both primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs), which can cause high interference. We name such cognitive radio ad hoc networks with omni-directional antennas as OMN-CRAHNs. Different from omni-directional antennas, directional antennas can concentrate the transmission on desired directions and can consequently reduce interference in undesired directions. In this paper, we investigate both the local connectivity and the overall connectivity of cognitive radio ad hoc networks with directional antennas (DIR-CRAHNs), in which both PUs and SUs are equipped with directional antennas. In particular, we establish a theoretical framework to analyze both the probability of node isolation and the probability of connectivity of DIR-CRAHNs and OMN-CRAHNs. Our analytical results show that DIR-CRAHNs can have higher connectivity than OMN-CRAHNs.     

Receiver-Oriented Multiple Access in Ad Hoc Networks with Directional Antennas

Directional antennas can adaptively select radio signals of interest in specific directions, while filtering out unwanted interference from other directions. A couple of medium access protocols based on random access schemes have been proposed for networks with directional antennas, using the omnidirectional mode for the transmission or reception of control packets in order to establish directional links. We propose a distributed receiver-oriented multiple access (ROMA) scheduling protocol, capable of utilizing multi-beam forming directional antennas in ad hoc networks. Unlike random access schemes that use on-demand handshakes or signal scanning to resolve communication targets, ROMA computes a link activation schedule in each time slot using two-hop topology information. It is shown that significant improvements on network throughput and delay can be achieved by exploiting the multi-beam forming capability of directional antennas in both transmission and reception. The performance of ROMA is studied by simulation, and compared with a well-know static scheduling scheme that is based on global topology information.     

Call admission control for wireless mesh network based on power interference modeling using directional antenna

Interference is a fundamental issue in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) and it seriously affects the network performance. In this paper we characterize the power interference in IEEE 802.11 CSMA/CA based wireless mesh networks using directional antennas. A model based centralized call admission control (CAC) scheme is proposed which uses physical collision constraints, and transmitter-side, receiver-side and when-idle protocol collision prevention constraints. The CAC assists to manage requests from users depending on the available bandwidth in the network: when a new virtual link establishment request from a user is accepted into the network, resources such as interface, bandwidth, transmission power and channel are allocated in the participating nodes and released once the session is completed. The proposed CAC is also able to contain the interference in the WMN by managing the transmission power of nodes.