Directional Antenna Enhanced Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2015) | Viewed by 24123
Special Issue Editors
Interests: (i) QoS-aware and cross-layer protocols for prioritized multimedia traffic in wireless mobile ad-hoc (MANET), sensor, cognitive radio, mesh and cellular networks. (ii) Error resilient multimedia compression techniques, including H.264/AVC, MPEG-4 and JPEG2000. (iii) Digital image processing and machine learning techniques
Interests: (1) wireless networks (wireless mesh networks, sensor networks, etc.); (2) machine learning (intelligent algorithms, artificial intelligence, etc.); (3) cyber security (such as cyber-physical security)
Interests: spread spectrum, covert and low-observable communications and signal processing, multiuser waveform design, antijam/interference mitigation signal processing and adaptive receivers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This special issue will focus on the design of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks with directional antennas. The antennas could have single-beam or multi-beam transmission capabilities. They could be switched or adaptive antennas. Directional wireless networks bring many benefits such as higher throughput, longer communication range, spatial reuse due to separate communication coverage, interference reduction from neighbors, etc.
This special issue emphasizes the new network architecture, algorithms, and protocols to explore the benefits of directional antennas in multi-hop wireless communications. We would especially encourage research papers in the following topics (other relevant topics are also welcome):
Category 1: New Network Architecture and Applications
- Wireless topology control under directional communications;
- Power control schemes during wireless transmissions;
- Wireless mesh network architecture under multi-beam antennas;
- Neighboring discovery schemes;
- Exciting applications with directional communications;
- MIMO-oriented communication architecture; etc.
Category 2: New Network Algorithms
- Enhanced congestion control algorithms under directional communication loss;
- Channel allocation algorithms under multi-channel or dynamic spectrum access;
- QoS-based Scheduling in either MAC layer or Routing layer;
- MIMO-oriented communication optimization;
- Directional Graph theory for connectivity and coverage;
- Capacity models under directional, asymmetric links; etc.
Category 3: New Network Protocols
- Directional MAC;
- Routing under antenna deafness;
- Capture-aware protocols;
- Cross-layer design protocols;
- Higher layer design (Transport layer, Application Layer, etc.);
- Physical characteristics aware communications (such as considering the antenna beam characteristics, MIMO weight vector change, etc.); and so on.
Dr. Sunil Kumar
Dr. Fei Hu
Dr. Michael Medley
Guest Editors
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