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ICWMC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
An Overview of MAC Protocols with Directional Antennas in Wireless ad hoc Networks
Although directional antennas have been used in mobile communications systems for quite a long time, realistic applications of directional or smart antennas in wireless ad hoc net...
Hongning Dai, Kam-Wing Ng, Min-You Wu
AINA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Testbed with a Practical Smart Antenna for Directional MAC Protocols in Ad hoc Networks
Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas have been proposed for ad hoc networks, which are mainly evaluated by computer simulations. This paper develops a MAC pr...
Hikaru Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Watanabe, Sadao Obana,...
ICC
2007
IEEE
140views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Empirical Discussion on Directional MAC Protocols for Ad hoc Networks using Practice Smart Antennas
Recent studies on directional Media Access Control (MAC) protocols using smart antennas for wireless ad hoc networks have shown that directional MAC protocols outperform traditiona...
Masahiro Watanabe, Hikaru Mitsuhashi, Masaki Banda...
WOWMOM
2005
ACM
126views Multimedia» more  WOWMOM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
An Integrated Neighbor Discovery and MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antennas
— Many MAC sub-layer protocols for supporting the usage of directional antennas in ad hoc networks have been proposed in literature. However, there remain two open issues that ar...
Gentian Jakllari, Wenjie Luo, Srikanth V. Krishnam...
SIGMOBILE
2008
42views more  SIGMOBILE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Cooperative cross layer MAC protocols for directional antenna ad hoc networks
Andrea Munari, Francesco Rossetto, Michele Zorzi