Resource allocation in wireless networks using directional antennas

Imad Jawhar, Jie Wu

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    15 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006
    Pages318-327
    Number of pages10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006
    Event4th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006 - Pisa, Italy
    Duration: Mar 13 2006Mar 17 2006

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006
    Volume2006

    Other

    Other4th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2006
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityPisa
    Period3/13/063/17/06

    Keywords

    • Directional antennas
    • Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)
    • Quality of service (QoS)
    • Routing
    • Time division multiple access (TDMA)

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Engineering

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