THE EFFECTS OF INTERELEMENT SPACING IN LINEAR ARRAYS ON THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE IN AD HOC NETWORKS

Sonia Furman, David E. Hammers, Mario Gerla

2004

Abstract

With the high demand for improved signal link quality in ad hoc networks, devices configured with omnidirectional antennas can no longer meet the growing needs in throughput performance, and alternative approaches using antenna arrays that provide directional radiation patterns are sought. This study models an 8-element linear antenna array and examines the effects of interelement spacing of the array on the ad hoc network’s throughput performance. We show through simulation, that as a result of the antenna array, the throughput performance of the network consistently improved compared to that with an omnidirectional antenna. Interestingly, we determined that the maximum increase in performance of over 150% was attained with the smallest interelement spacing of 0.5λ rather than with the larger interelement spacing and higher gain. With null-steering, this performance increased even further to 180%.

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Furman S., E. Hammers D. and Gerla M. (2004). THE EFFECTS OF INTERELEMENT SPACING IN LINEAR ARRAYS ON THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE IN AD HOC NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 150-159. DOI: 10.5220/0001390701500159


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@conference{icete04,
author={Sonia Furman and David E. Hammers and Mario Gerla},
title={THE EFFECTS OF INTERELEMENT SPACING IN LINEAR ARRAYS ON THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE IN AD HOC NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE,},
year={2004},
pages={150-159},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001390701500159},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 3: ICETE,
TI - THE EFFECTS OF INTERELEMENT SPACING IN LINEAR ARRAYS ON THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE IN AD HOC NETWORKS
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Furman S.
AU - E. Hammers D.
AU - Gerla M.
PY - 2004
SP - 150
EP - 159
DO - 10.5220/0001390701500159