National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61231008);Industrial Science and Technology Research and Development Project of Shaanxi Province (No.2014K05-59);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.2014G2320006, No.2014G3322008, No.310832151089)
CHEN Dan, LI Jin-dan, YAN Mao-de, et al. Threaded Topology Transparent Multiple Access Protocol for MIMO Link Ad Hoc Networks[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2015, 43(6): 1241-1248.
DOI:
CHEN Dan, LI Jin-dan, YAN Mao-de, et al. Threaded Topology Transparent Multiple Access Protocol for MIMO Link Ad Hoc Networks[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2015, 43(6): 1241-1248. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2015.06.031.
Threaded Topology Transparent Multiple Access Protocol for MIMO Link Ad Hoc Networks
A MIMO-aware threaded topology transparent multiple access(MIMO-T-TTMA) protocol is proposed for MIMO link ad hoc networks.MIMO-T-TTMA utilizes the protocol threading technique and combines a time spread multiple access(TSMA) protocol and a time division multiple access(TDMA) protocol in time-sharing mode.In MIMO-T-TTMA
each node in the networks is assigned a few slots.In each of its assigned slot
node determines the number of data streams to be transmitted by exchanging request to send/clear to send(RTS/CTS) packets.While the exchange of RTS/CTS fails or the slot is a non-assigned slot
the node also transmits one stream according to some probability in order to improve the throughput.To evaluate the performance
the throughput of MIMO-T-TTMA is deduced by theoretical analysis.Numerical results show that
compared with existing protocols
MIMO-T-TTMA has higher throughput when node degree is relatively large
moreover
the throughput is more stable with the changes of node degree
therefore
MIMO-T-TTMA applies to the ad hoc networks whose topologies vary significantly.