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Dynamic antenna mode selection for link maintenances in mobile ad hoc network

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P. Shiva Kumar,

Rinki Sharma,

G. VaraprasadAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGBED Review, Volume 7, Issue 3

Pages 3 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/1938543.1938544

Published: 01 December 2010 Publication History

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Mobile ad hoc networks are designed to work in environments, where the terrains have unpredictable obstacles such as hills, water bodies, buildings or regions without any nodes. In the mobile ad hoc network, the mobile nodes use the directional antennas to achieve high spatial reuse. If the nodes with the directional beam move, then the obstacles may come between the communicating nodes. The link quality deteriorates resulting in link break, causing disruption in the communication. This paper proposes a scheme, which allows the mobile nodes to maintain the link in an irregular terrain by dynamically changing antenna mode from directional to omni. The proposed model has been simulated using Qualnet simulator (version 4.5). The simulation results shown that the proposed model is improved the network performance in terms of packet delivery ratio, number of link breaks and number of hops.

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Dynamic antenna mode selection for link maintenances in mobile ad hoc network
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
    1. Signal processing systems
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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ACM SIGBED Review Volume 7, Issue 3

December 2010

7 pages

EISSN:1551-3688

DOI:10.1145/1938543

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