QTDMAC: The MAC protocol for QoS support in MANET using smart antennas

摘要

Unlike directional antennas, smart antennas offer MANET (Mobile Ad hoc Net works) potential increases in their achievable throughput and capacity. Based on the development of smart antenna technology, we studied the MAC protocol for QoS support, which becomes the hot issue in multimedia services. The protocol divides the channel into the data channel and the control channel, node sends forecast guarantee to compete the channel. And after completing the RTS/CTS handshake appointment, node is reserved for data transmission. Node can send Busy Tones to prevent the problem of the deafness nodes and hidden terminal. At last if the direct link between the sender and receiver has low quality and low rate, data packets may be delivered faster through a relay node. Through the analytical results, we compare QTDMAC with the protocol IEEE802.1 and DMAC. The QTDMAC protocol is proved the superiority in throughput and the real-time delay business.