TY - GEN
T1 - Resource allocation in wireless networks using directional antennas
AU - Jawhar, Imad
AU - Wu, Jie
PY - 2006/10/31
Y1 - 2006/10/31
N2 - With the continued increase of speed and capacities of computing devices and the growing needs of people for mobile computing capabilities, Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have gained a lot of interest from the research community. Quality of service (QoS) provisioning in MANETs is an essential component that is needed to support multimedia and real-time applications. On the other hand, directional antenna technology provides the capability for considerable increase in spatial reuse which is essential in the wireless medium. In this paper, a bandwidth reservation protocol for QoS routing in TDMA-based MANETs using directional antennas is presented. The routing algorithm allows a source node to reserve a path to a particular destination with the needed bandwidth which is represented by the number of slots in the data phase of the TDMA frame. Further optimizations to improve the efficiency and resource utilization of the network are provided.
AB - With the continued increase of speed and capacities of computing devices and the growing needs of people for mobile computing capabilities, Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have gained a lot of interest from the research community. Quality of service (QoS) provisioning in MANETs is an essential component that is needed to support multimedia and real-time applications. On the other hand, directional antenna technology provides the capability for considerable increase in spatial reuse which is essential in the wireless medium. In this paper, a bandwidth reservation protocol for QoS routing in TDMA-based MANETs using directional antennas is presented. The routing algorithm allows a source node to reserve a path to a particular destination with the needed bandwidth which is represented by the number of slots in the data phase of the TDMA frame. Further optimizations to improve the efficiency and resource utilization of the network are provided.
KW - Directional antennas
KW - Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)
KW - Quality of service (QoS)
KW - Routing
KW - Time division multiple access (TDMA)
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U2 - 10.1109/PERCOM.2006.45
DO - 10.1109/PERCOM.2006.45
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33750288419
SN - 0769525180
SN - 9780769525181
T3 - Proceedings - Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006
SP - 318
EP - 327
BT - Proceedings - Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006
T2 - 4th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006
Y2 - 13 March 2006 through 17 March 2006
ER -