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Enabling Simultaneous MAC Transmission with MIMO: Logical MIMO

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Future Wireless and Optical Networks

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The multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology has been extensively applied in the physical layer to improve transmission bit rates of individual terminals. This is due to MIMO’s support of simultaneous transmissions at the same frequency. However, it is difficult to implement multiple antennas at a small-sized terminal, yet it is essential to realize MIMO. Although virtual MIMO solves this problem, it requires inter-node cooperative communication, which has to be addressed carefully. This chapter discusses how to use MIMO in the data link layer to enable medium access control (MAC) to provide simultaneous transmissions at the same frequency from different nodes. This kind of MIMO aims at improving network throughput rather than the transmission bit rates of individual nodes. Furthermore, it requires neither multiple antennas installed per terminal nor inter-node cooperative communication, resulting in an easier implementation. This chapter analyzes the MAC schemes based on the above three types of MIMO for uplink sharing in centralized wireless networks.

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Jiang, S. (2012). Enabling Simultaneous MAC Transmission with MIMO: Logical MIMO. In: Future Wireless and Optical Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2822-9_11

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