A Dual-Channel MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Chang-Nam Kang, D.-Y. YANG, Jeong-Woo Jwa · IEICE Transactions on Communications · 2007
The directional medium access control (MAC) protocol improves the throughput of mobile ad hoc networks but has a deafness problem and requires location information for neighboring nodes. In the dual-channel directional MAC protocol [12], the use of omnidirectional packets does not require the exact location of destination node. In this letter, we propose a tone dual-channel MAC protocol with directional antennas to improve the throughput of mobile ad hoc networks. In the proposed MAC protocol, we use a directional CTS and an out-of-band directional DATA tone with a new blocking algorithm to improve the spatial reuse. We confirm the throughput performance of the proposed MAC protocol by computer simulations using the Qualnet simulator. Keywords: Ad hoc MAC protocol, directional antennas, tone, dual-channel, deafness.