Asymmetric Directional Multicast for Capillary Machine-to-Machine Using mmWave Communications
The huge demand for high data rate machine-to-machine (M2M) services has led to the use of millimeter Wave (mmWave) band communications with support for a multi-Gbps data rate through the use of directional antennas. However, unnecessary sector switching in multicast transmissions with directional a...
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description | The huge demand for high data rate machine-to-machine (M2M) services has led to the use of millimeter Wave (mmWave) band communications with support for a multi-Gbps data rate through the use of directional antennas. However, unnecessary sector switching in multicast transmissions with directional antennas results in a long delay, and consequently a low throughput. We propose asymmetric directional multicast (ADM) for capillary M2M to address this problem in mmWave communications. ADM provides asymmetric sectorization that is optimized for the irregular deployment pattern of mulicast group members. In ADM, an M2M gateway builds up asymmetric sectors with a beamwidth of a different size to cover all multicast group members with the minimum number of directional transmissions. The performance of ADM under various simulation environments is evaluated through a comparison with legacy mmWave multicast. The results of the simulation indicate that ADM achieves a better performance in terms of the transmission sectors, the transmission time, and the aggregate throughput when compared with the legacy multicast method. |
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spelling | doaj.art-bdab6eedeadb4d55856a6149aa1977262022-12-22T04:01:03ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202016-04-0116451510.3390/s16040515s16040515Asymmetric Directional Multicast for Capillary Machine-to-Machine Using mmWave CommunicationsJung-Hyok Kwon0Eui-Jik Kim1Department of Convergence Software, Hallym University, 1 Hallymdaehak-gil, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 24252, KoreaDepartment of Convergence Software, Hallym University, 1 Hallymdaehak-gil, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do 24252, KoreaThe huge demand for high data rate machine-to-machine (M2M) services has led to the use of millimeter Wave (mmWave) band communications with support for a multi-Gbps data rate through the use of directional antennas. However, unnecessary sector switching in multicast transmissions with directional antennas results in a long delay, and consequently a low throughput. We propose asymmetric directional multicast (ADM) for capillary M2M to address this problem in mmWave communications. ADM provides asymmetric sectorization that is optimized for the irregular deployment pattern of mulicast group members. In ADM, an M2M gateway builds up asymmetric sectors with a beamwidth of a different size to cover all multicast group members with the minimum number of directional transmissions. The performance of ADM under various simulation environments is evaluated through a comparison with legacy mmWave multicast. The results of the simulation indicate that ADM achieves a better performance in terms of the transmission sectors, the transmission time, and the aggregate throughput when compared with the legacy multicast method.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/4/515asymmetric sectorizationcapillary machine-to-machinedirectional multicastInternet of thingsmillimeter Wave communications |
spellingShingle | Jung-Hyok Kwon Eui-Jik Kim Asymmetric Directional Multicast for Capillary Machine-to-Machine Using mmWave Communications Sensors asymmetric sectorization capillary machine-to-machine directional multicast Internet of things millimeter Wave communications |
title | Asymmetric Directional Multicast for Capillary Machine-to-Machine Using mmWave Communications |
title_full | Asymmetric Directional Multicast for Capillary Machine-to-Machine Using mmWave Communications |
title_fullStr | Asymmetric Directional Multicast for Capillary Machine-to-Machine Using mmWave Communications |
title_full_unstemmed | Asymmetric Directional Multicast for Capillary Machine-to-Machine Using mmWave Communications |
title_short | Asymmetric Directional Multicast for Capillary Machine-to-Machine Using mmWave Communications |
title_sort | asymmetric directional multicast for capillary machine to machine using mmwave communications |
topic | asymmetric sectorization capillary machine-to-machine directional multicast Internet of things millimeter Wave communications |
url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/4/515 |
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