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SAND: Sectored-Antenna Neighbor Discovery Protocol for Wireless Networks
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- Authors
- Emad Felemban, Robert Murawski, Eylem Ekici, Sang Joon Park, Kang Woo Lee, Ju Derk Park, Zeeshan Hameed
- Issue Date
- 2010-06
- Citation
- Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) 2010, pp.1-9
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- Directional antennas offer many potential advantages for wireless networks such as increased network capacity, extended transmission range and reduced energy consumption. Exploiting these advantages, however, requires new protocols and mechanisms at various communication layers to intelligently control the directional antenna system. With directional antennas, many trivial mechanisms, such as neighbor discovery, become more challenging since communicating parties must agree on where and when to point their directional beams to enable communication. In this paper, we propose a fully directional neighbor discovery protocol called Sectored-Antenna Neighbor Discovery (SAND) protocol. SAND is designed for sectored-antennas, a low-cost and simple realization of directional antennas, that utilize multiple limited beamwidth antennas. Unlike many proposed directional neighbor discovery protocols, SAND depends neither on omnidirectional antennas nor on time synchronization. In addition, SAND performs neighbor discovery in a serialized fashion allowing individual nodes to discover all potential neighbors within a predetermined time. Moreover, SAND guarantees the discovery of the best sector combination at both ends of a link, resulting in more robust and higher quality links between nodes. Finally, SAND gathers the neighborhood information in a centralized location, if needed, to be used by centralized networking protocols. The effectiveness of SAND has been assessed via simulation studies and real hardware implementation. © 2010 IEEE.
- KSP Keywords
- Hardware implementation, Low-cost, Neighbor discovery protocol, Neighborhood information, Network capacity, Networking Protocols, Sector combination, Sectored-Antenna, Simulation study, Time synchronization, Transmission Range