IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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Direction-Aware Time Slot Assignment for Largest Bandwidth in Slotted Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Jianping LIYasushi WAKAHARA
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2009 Volume E92.B Issue 3 Pages 858-866

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Slotted wireless ad hoc networks are drawing more and more attention because of their advantage of QoS (Quality of Service) support for multimedia applications owing to their collision-free packet transmission. Time slot assignment is an unavoidable and important problem in such networks. The existing time slot assignment methods have in general a drawback of limited available bandwidth due to their local assignment optimization without the consideration of directions of the radio wave transmission of wireless links along the routes in such networks. A new time slot assignment is proposed in this paper in order to overcome this drawback. The proposed assignment is different from the existing methods in the following aspects: a) consideration of link directions during time slot assignment; b) largest bandwidth to be achieved; c) feasibility in resource limited ad hoc networks because of its fast assignment. Moreover, the effectiveness of the proposal is confirmed by some simulation results.

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