A Survey on Resource Allocation in WLANs with Directional Antennas

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey on Resource Allocation in WLANs with Directional Antennas"

by

Miss Ying Wang


Abstract:

Directional antennas can increase network capacity in wireless system by 
focusing energy on some particular directions and removing interference 
towards other unwanted directions. Compared to the traditional 
omnidirectional antennas, directional antennas have many advantages such 
as increasing link gain and improving spatial reuse. However, former 
resource allocation techniques designed for omnidirectional antennas may 
not be suitable for directional antenna systems. This survey focuses on 
resource allocation algorithms and media access control (MAC) protocols 
developed for directional antennas in a wireless local area network 
(WLAN). First, we present some basic work on improving network performance 
for omnidirectional antenna-based systems; then we summarize the studies 
on using directional antennas in WLANs to improve performance.



Date:			Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Time:	 		2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Venue:  	        Room 2612A
	                lifts 31-32

Committee Members:	Dr. Brahim Bensaou (Supervisor)
	 		Prof. Mounir Hamdi (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Jogesh Muppala
 			Dr. Raymond C W Wong


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