无线Mesh网中支持智能天线的双信道MAC协议研究设计与仿真.pdfVIP

摘要 智能天线具有以下能力：增加空间复用度，增强传输可靠性，扩大传 输范围或减少能量消耗。如果这些能力能被有效利用，则可以大大增强网 络容量，节点工作时间，网络连通性和安全。但是由于采用了智能天线的 无线网络的一些独特特性，传统的 MAC 层协议不能有效开发上述潜能。 过去的几年里人们设计了大量的MAC 层协议来适应这些潜能。在本文中， 我们调研了过去十年来对波束成形天线网络的MAC 协议研究的文献。我 们讨论波束成形的引入对MAC 层的挑战，然后根据运行方式和应对这些 挑战的方法对这些文献方法进行了分类。根据这些研究，本文将智能天线 技术、双信道定向虚拟载波技术以及无线Mesh 骨干网络的特点结合在一 起，基于 CSMA/CA 提出了一种新型的 MAC 层协议— — FS-DMAC(Full-time Sensing DMAC)协议。该协议通过合理的设计，在控 制信道全向交互控制包来竞争数据信道的接入权（数据信道为定向传输）， 采用双信道定向虚拟载波侦听，规避了智能天线 MAC 协议的传统问题， 改善了网络的整体性能。本文通过OPNET 仿真表明，和已有的其他协议 相比，FS-DMAC 协议具有良好的吞吐量和接入时延等性能。 关键词：WMN ，智能天线，多址接入协议，双信道虚拟载波侦听 Abstract Smart antenna has the following abilities: spatial reuse increase, the transmission reliability enhancement, transmission range extension and/or the power consumption saving. If these abilities can be effective used, they can greatly enhance the network capacity, node working time, the network connectivity and security. However due to some unique characteristics of wireless network with smart antenna, traditional Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols fail to exploit these potential. To that end, people have designed a lot of MAC protocols to harness these potential in the past few years. In this paper, we survey the literature on MAC protocols proposed for wireless networks with smart antennas. We discuss the main smart antenna-related challenges facing the medium access control in wireless networks. According to the mode of operation to these challenges, we present taxonomy of the MAC protocols proposed in these literatures. Combining smart antenna technology, dual-channel directional virtual carrier sensing and the characteristics of the WMN backbone, th