National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61231008);Industrial Science and Technology Research and Development Project of Shaanxi Province (No.2014K05-59, No.2015GY033);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.2014G2320006, No.2014G3322008, No.310832151089)
CHEN Dan, LIU Bu-hua, YAN Mao-de, et al. Orthogonal Array Based Topology Transparent MAC Protocol for MIMO Ad Hoc Networks[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2016, 44(2): 308-318.
DOI:
CHEN Dan, LIU Bu-hua, YAN Mao-de, et al. Orthogonal Array Based Topology Transparent MAC Protocol for MIMO Ad Hoc Networks[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2016, 44(2): 308-318. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2016.02.010.
Orthogonal Array Based Topology Transparent MAC Protocol for MIMO Ad Hoc Networks
An orthogonal array based topology transparent MAC(Media Access Control) protocol named MIMO_O_TTMA(MIMO Supported Orthogonal Array Based Topology Transparent Multiple Access) is proposed for MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output) Ad Hoc networks.The protocol utilizes the orthogonal arrays to assign slots for network nodes
in each assigned slot
the transmitters determine the number of streams to be used by exchanging the RTS/CTS(Request To Send/Clear To Send) packets with their destination nodes
in this way
the nodes can opportunistically use the spatial multiplexing(SM) of MIMO to enhance the network performances.In addition to ensuring at least one collision-free slot in a frame for each node
the MIMO_O_TTMA allows the frame length to be flexibly chosen in certain range
which provides favorable conditions for optimizing the protocol performances.To evaluate the performance the MIMO_O_TTMA
a probability method is used to analysis the throughput of the protocol.Numerical results show that
compared with the existing topology transparent MAC
MIMO_O_TTMA can effectively improves the network throughputs.