@INPROCEEDINGS{Anderson2009Integrated,
  author = {Eric Anderson},
  title = {Integrated Beam Steering and Scheduling for Spatial Reuse},
  booktitle = {Tenth Intl. Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
	({HotMobile}) Doctoral Consortium},
  year = {2009},
  month = {February},
  organization = {{ACM}},
  note = {extended abstract},
  abstract = {Increasing spatial reuse of spectrum is fundamental to improving the
	capacity and usefulness of large wireless networks. Steerable and
	adaptive antennas facilitate reuse, and a number of MAC-layer protocols
	have been developed for them. Existing protocols, however, do not
	allow the MAC (or scheduling) process to fully consider the capabilities
	of antenna reconfiguration, or vice-versa. Without such integration
	between MAC scheduling and physical antenna configuration, a ``chicken-and-egg''
	problem exists: If antenna decisions are made before scheduling,
	they cannot be optimized for the communication that will actually
	occur. If the scheduling decisions are made first, the scheduler
	cannot know what the actual interference and signal strength properties
	of the network will be. 
	
	
	To take full advantage of the dynamic capabilities of an advanced
	antenna system, MAC-layer processes need to know about not just any
	particular RF-level configuration, but about the range of \emph{possible}
	configurations. This research has two goals: To produce a fully-integrated
	algorithm for STDMA scheduling and beam steering, and to \emph{systematically}
	evaluate the costs and benefits of different approaches to such integration.
	
	
	
	Our approach to this research is based on a combination of mathematical
	analysis, simulation, implementation and deployment, and empirical
	measurement.},
  owner = {andersoe},
  timestamp = {2009.05.01}
}