An Asynchronous Multi-Beam MAC Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Shivam Garg,
Nandini Venkatraman,
Elizabeth Serena Bentley
et al.
Abstract:A node equipped with a multi-beam antenna can achieve a throughput of up to m times as compared to a singlebeam antenna, by simultaneously communicating on its m noninterfering beams. However, the existing multi-beam medium access control (MAC) schemes can achieve concurrent data communication only when the transmitter nodes are locally synchronized. Asynchronous packet arrival at a multi-beam receiver node would increase the node deafness and MAClayer capture problems, and thereby limit the data throughput. T… Show more
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