A New Switched Beam Smart Antenna Model for Extending Inet Omnet++ Framework

Vincenzo Inzillo, Floriano De Rango, Alfonso Ariza Quintana

2017

Abstract

Smart Antenna Systems (SAS) are providing a strong increasing impact in digital wireless communication systems. Due to their great advantages regarding nodes power saving and coverage enhancing, SAS are largely employed on pervasive network environments such as MANET. Because almost the whole of existing network simulators use omnidirectional antennas on nodes, we propose a new version of Inet framework of Omnet++ that extends its operation also for network scenarios in which nodes are equipped with directional antennas. Furthermore, we created a new directional antenna module that simulates the behaviour of a Phased Array System and a very simple algorithm for power management in channel. The new proposed model presents some modifications to key-modules that are involved in a normal wireless communication scenario, in order to support asymmetrical communications between nodes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Inzillo V., De Rango F. and Ariza Quintana A. (2017). A New Switched Beam Smart Antenna Model for Extending Inet Omnet++ Framework . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-265-3, pages 263-271. DOI: 10.5220/0006439602630271

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech17,
author={Vincenzo Inzillo and Floriano De Rango and Alfonso Ariza Quintana},
title={A New Switched Beam Smart Antenna Model for Extending Inet Omnet++ Framework},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2017},
pages={263-271},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006439602630271},
isbn={978-989-758-265-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - A New Switched Beam Smart Antenna Model for Extending Inet Omnet++ Framework
SN - 978-989-758-265-3
AU - Inzillo V.
AU - De Rango F.
AU - Ariza Quintana A.
PY - 2017
SP - 263
EP - 271
DO - 10.5220/0006439602630271