Beamforming Antennas in Wireless Networks: Multihop and Millimeter Wave Communication Networks (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

✍ Scribed by Osama Bazan

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 128
• Edition: 1st ed. 2021
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wireless networks are facing growing demand for high capacity, better coverage, support of new applications and broad range of services. In this book, the authors first present an overview of beamforming antennas and millimeter wave communications followed by a discussion on the challenges and issues facing MAC and multi-hop routing in the wireless networks with beamforming antennas. Then, they discuss various MAC and routing protocols that are specifically designed to address those issues and exploit the benefits of millimeter wave and beamforming antennas. Authors also present a framework to provide Quality of Service (QoS) in contention-based wireless networks with beamforming antennas. Finally, the book is concluded with a discussion on open research topics for future generation WLAN systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Wireless Networks
1.2 Beamforming Antennas: A Promising Technology
1.2.1 Potential Benefits
1.2.2 Challenges in the Upper Layers
1.3 Organization of the Book
References
2 Overview of Beamforming Antennas
2.1 Fundamentals
2.2 Smart Antennas Technology
2.2.1 Beamforming Antennas
2.2.2 MIMO Systems
2.3 Types of Beamforming Antennas
2.3.1 Switched Beam Antenna Systems
2.3.2 Steered Beam Antenna Systems
2.4 Millimeter Wave Beamforming
References
3 MAC Issues
3.1 Medium Access Control with Omni-Directional Antennas
3.2 MAC Challenges with Beamforming Antennas
3.2.1 Deafness
3.2.2 New Hidden Terminals
3.2.3 Head-of-Line Blocking
3.2.4 Communication Range Under-Utilization
3.2.5 MAC-Layer Capture
References
4 Directional MAC
4.1 Directional MAC Design Choices
4.1.1 Transmission Mode of RTS/CTS Packets
4.1.2 Virtual Carrier Sensing
4.1.3 Idle Listening Mode
4.1.4 Backoff
4.1.5 Beamforming Information
4.1.6 Tones
4.1.7 Synchronized Access
4.2 Overview of Directional MAC Protocols
4.2.1 Classification
4.2.2 Random Access Protocols
4.2.3 Synchronized Access Protocols
4.3 Basic Directional MAC (DMAC)
4.3.1 DMAC with Omni-Directional Backoff
4.4 Circular Directional RTS MAC (CDR)
4.5 Opportunistic Directional MAC (OPMAC)
4.5.1 Main Design Considerations
4.5.2 Protocol Description
4.5.3 Performance Evaluation
References
5 Enhanced MAC for Millimeter Wave Communication
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Beacon Frame
5.3 Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA)
5.4 Multiple Channel Access
5.5 Cooperative MAC Protocol
5.5.1 Contention Free Cooperative MAC Protocol
5.5.2 Contention-Based Cooperative MAC Protocol
5.6 Dual-Band MAC Protocol
5.7 Pre-defined Virtual Grouping MAC Protocol
References
6 Directional Routing
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Neighbor Discovery
6.3 Route Discovery
6.3.1 Route Discovery Optimization
6.4 Directional Routing Schemes
6.4.1 Directional DSR (DDSR)
6.4.2 Directional Routing Protocol (DRP)
6.4.3 Zone Disjoint Routing (ZDR)
6.4.4 DSR with Directional Antenna for Partition Bridging
6.4.5 Capture-Aware Routing
References
7 Directional QoS Routing Framework
7.1 QoS Guarantees in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
7.1.1 QoS Routing with Contention-Free MAC
7.1.2 QoS Routing with Contention-Based MAC
7.2 Conflict Analysis Framework
7.2.1 System Model
7.2.2 Classification of Link Conflicts
7.2.3 Colored Conflict Graph
7.3 QoS Routing Problem
7.3.1 Problem Formulation
7.3.2 Probability of Successful Transmission PS(i, j)
7.3.3 QoS Routing Algorithm
7.4 Performance Evaluation
References
8 Open Research Areas
8.1 Cross Layer Design for Directional MAC and Routing
8.2 Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Heterogeneous Antennas
8.3 Using Beamforming Antennas in Indoor Environments
8.4 Analytical Modeling for Directional MAC
8.5 QoS-Aware Directional Routing Protocols
8.6 Joint Optimization of Different Physical Layer Capabilities
8.7 Research Issues for mmWave WLAN
References