A High-Throughput Cross-Layer Scheme for Distributed Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Details A High-Throughput Cross-Layer Scheme for Distributed Wireless Ad Hoc Networks A High-Throughput Cross-Layer Scheme for Distributed Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

2007-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/0704.2841v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

6 pages, Appeared in the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, John Hopkins Universit

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In wireless ad hoc networks, distributed nodes can collaboratively form an antenna array for long-distance communications to achieve high energy efficiency. In recent work, Ochiai, et al., have shown that such collaborative beamforming can achieve a statistically nice beampattern with a narrow main lobe and low sidelobes. However, the process of collaboration introduces significant delay, since all collaborating nodes need access to the same information. In this paper, a technique that significantly reduces the collaboration overhead is proposed. It consists of two phases. In the first phase, nodes transmit locally in a random access fashion. Collisions, when they occur, are viewed as linear mixtures of the collided packets. In the second phase, a set of cooperating nodes acts as a distributed antenna system and beamform the received analog waveform to one or more faraway destinations. This step requires multiplication of the received analog waveform by a complex number, which is independently computed by each cooperating node, and which enables separation of the collided packets based on their final destination. The scheme requires that each node has global knowledge of the network coordinates. The proposed scheme can achieve high throughput, which in certain cases exceeds one.

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