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DIRC: increasing indoor wireless capacity using directional antennas

Authors:

Michael Kaminsky,

Konstantina Papagiannaki,

Srinivasan Seshan,

Peter SteenkisteAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCOMM '09: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication

Pages 171 - 182

https://doi.org/10.1145/1592568.1592589

Published: 16 August 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The demand for wireless bandwidth in indoor environments such as homes and offices continues to increase rapidly. Although wireless technologies such as MIMO can reach link throughputs of 100s of Mbps (802.11n) for a single link, the question of how we can deliver high throughput to a large number of densely-packed devices remains an open problem. Directional antennas have been shown to be an effective way to increase spatial reuse, but past work has focused largely on outdoor environments where the interactions between wireless links can usually be ignored. This assumption is not acceptable in dense indoor wireless networks since indoor deployments need to deal with rich scattering and multipath effects. In this paper we introduce DIRC, a wireless network design whose access points use phased array antennas to achieve high throughput in dense, indoor environments. The core of DIRC is an algorithm that increases spatial reuse and maximizes overall network capacity by optimizing the orientations of a network of directional antennas. We implemented DIRC and evaluated it on a nine node network in an enterprise setting. Our results show that DIRC improves overall network capacity in indoor environments, while being flexible enough to adapt to node mobility and changing traffic workloads.

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SIGCOMM '09: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication

August 2009

340 pages

ISBN:9781605585949

DOI:10.1145/1592568

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Telefonica Research, Spain
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Intel Labs Pittsburgh, USA
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Università di Pisa, Italy

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SIGCOMM '09
October 2009
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ISSN:0146-4833
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