Interference analysis for highly directional 60-GHz mesh networks: the case for rethinking medium access control
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...For example, if the transmitter’s antenna elements are modeled as being ideal sectored elements [62], Λt(φi , θ t i ) would be given by...
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...MmWave makes use of spectrum from 30 GHz to 300 GHz whereas most R. W. Heath Jr. is with The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA (email: rheath@utexas.edu)....
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...4 GHz [14]....
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...In this case, the coordination mechanism becomes the key to the MAC design, and concurrent transmission should be exploited fully to greatly enhance the network capacity [14]....
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...mesh networks in the mmWave band [10–14]....
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...This idealized radiation pattern, often referred as the “flat-top model”, was used in [22], [38]–[40] for systemlevel performance analysis....
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...With the increased interest in defining a 60 GHz WLAN standard, more measurement work has been conducted for the sake of accurately modeling the channel and signal propagation characteristics in this band [28]–[35], with an interference analysis in [36]....
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...Thus, given the dif.culty of producing large amounts of radio frequency (RF) power at mm-wave frequencies using low-cost silicon implementations, employing highly directive antennas at both transmitter and receiver is essential for the range/rate combinations we wish to achieve....
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...However, unlike a truly wired node, mm-wave network nodes have a half-duplex constraint, i.e., they can either send or receive at a given time, but not both....
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...We verify that transmitter receiver coordination is indeed the bottleneck by simulating a directional slotted Aloha protocol for 60-GHz mesh networks with random topologies....
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...…that MAC design for highly directional 60-GHz networks can ignore interference up to the .rst order (e.g., by being reactive rather than proactive about interference management) and should focus attention instead on the problem of transmitter receiver coordination in the face of deafness....
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