5th International ICST Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks

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Cooperation and Directionality: A Co-opdirectional MAC for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480035,
    author={Zhifeng Tao and Thanasis Korakis and Yevgeniy Slutskiy and Shivendra Panwar and Leandros Tassiulas},
    title={Cooperation and Directionality: A Co-opdirectional MAC for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={WIOPT},
    year={2008},
    month={3},
    keywords={Computer networks  Concurrent computing  Directional antennas  Media Access Protocol  Mobile ad hoc networks  Next generation networking  Physical layer  Technological innovation  Wireless application protocol  Wireless networks},
    doi={10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480035}
}
  • Zhifeng Tao
    Thanasis Korakis
    Yevgeniy Slutskiy
    Shivendra Panwar
    Leandros Tassiulas
    Year: 2008
    Cooperation and Directionality: A Co-opdirectional MAC for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
    WIOPT
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480035
Zhifeng Tao1,*, Thanasis Korakis2,*, Yevgeniy Slutskiy3,*, Shivendra Panwar2,*, Leandros Tassiulas4,*
  • 1: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139
  • 2: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201
  • 3: Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
  • 4: Computer Engineering and Telecommunications Department, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece 38221
*Contact email: tao@merl.com, korakis@poly.edu, ys2146@columbia.edu, panwar@catt.poly.edu, leandros@inf.uth.gr

Abstract

Advances in cooperative communications and directional antenna design so far have taken place in parallel, if not in isolation from each other. To explore the role they may play in the next generation of wireless networks, it is important to design and evaluate protocols that can provide co-opdirectionality, the capability of tapping into the combined potential of both cooperation and transmission directionality. Inspired by the protocols presented in [1] and [2], we propose a novel co-opdirectional MAC that fully leverages both cooperation diversity and transmission directionality1. Special attention has been paid to the protocol design so that the new MAC would not only inherit the advantages of two previous protocols, but also avoid their weaknesses in the wireless ad hoc environment. The protocol thus delivers a superior performance, as our extensive simulations confirm. To the best knowledge of the authors, this paper represents the first effort to deal with the challenges of integrating cooperation and directional capabilities at the MAC layer.

Keywords
Computer networks Concurrent computing Directional antennas Media Access Protocol Mobile ad hoc networks Next generation networking Physical layer Technological innovation Wireless application protocol Wireless networks
Published
2008-03-31
Publisher
IEEE
Modified
2011-07-28
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2007.4480035
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