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A PHY-MAC Cross-Layer Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks with Multiple-Antenna Nodes

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A PHY-MAC Cross-Layer Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks with Multiple-Antenna Nodes
—In this paper, we propose a physical (PHY) - medium access control (MAC) cross-layer protocol for ad hoc networks with antenna-array-equipped nodes that employ single-antenna transmission and multiple-antenna reception. Our protocol extends the progressive back-off algorithm (PBOA), proposed by Toumpis and Goldsmith, by integrating medium access and power control with optimum receive beamforming (ORB); hence it is named PBOA-ORB. The protocol performance is evaluated via simulations over a single-hop ad hoc network that is subject to a uniform traffic load. It is shown that PBOA-ORB significantly enhances both the aggregate throughput and the energy efficiency of PBOA by harnessing the interference suppression and array gains of receive beamforming. Specifically, for a small number of antennas compared to the number of nodes, the aggregate throughput increases linearly with the number of antennas while the average energy consumption per data packet decreases.
Ioannis Spyropoulos, James R. Zeidler
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Type Conference
Year 2009
Where ICC
Authors Ioannis Spyropoulos, James R. Zeidler
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