Inzillo, V.; Rango, F.D.; Quintana, A.A.; Santamaria, A.F. An Adaptive Beamforming Time with Round-Robin MAC Algorithm for Reducing Energy Consumption in MANET. J. Sens. Actuator Netw.2018, 7, 50.
Inzillo, V.; Rango, F.D.; Quintana, A.A.; Santamaria, A.F. An Adaptive Beamforming Time with Round-Robin MAC Algorithm for Reducing Energy Consumption in MANET. J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2018, 7, 50.
Inzillo, V.; Rango, F.D.; Quintana, A.A.; Santamaria, A.F. An Adaptive Beamforming Time with Round-Robin MAC Algorithm for Reducing Energy Consumption in MANET. J. Sens. Actuator Netw.2018, 7, 50.
Inzillo, V.; Rango, F.D.; Quintana, A.A.; Santamaria, A.F. An Adaptive Beamforming Time with Round-Robin MAC Algorithm for Reducing Energy Consumption in MANET. J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2018, 7, 50.
Abstract
The use of Smart Antenna Systems (SAS) in pervasive environments such the Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) has been promoted as the best choice to improve Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) and throughput. Although directional communications are expected to provide great advantages in terms of network performance, directional MAC (Medium Access Control) protocols introduce several issues. One of the most known problems in this context is represented by the fact that, attempting to solve or at least mitigate the problems introduced by these kinds of antennas especially at MAC layer, a large amount of energy consumption is achieved ; for example, due to excessive retransmissions introduced by very frequently issue such as deafness and handoff. The expedients proposed in order to reduce these drawbacks attempting to limit beamforming time of nodes in cooperation with a Round-Robin scheduling, can grant high performance in terms of fairness and throughput. However the overall energy consumption in the network is not efficent due to the static approach. In view of this, we propose an Adaptive Beamforming Time with Round-Robin MAC providing for a dynamic assignment of the beamforming time with the purpose to limit the waste of energy of nodes.
Keywords
smart antenna systems; MANET; MAC; energy consumption; beamforming; round robin
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems
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