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ICC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
An Opportunistic Directional MAC Protocol for Multihop Wireless Networks with Switched Beam Directional Antennas
— Directional antennas in multihop wireless networks offer a potential increase in the spatial reuse of the wireless channel. However, existing directional MAC protocols are not ...
Osama Bazan, Muhammad Jaseemuddin
ICCCN
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
SpotMAC: A Pencil-Beam MAC for Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract— Deafness is a key problem. It erodes the performance gains provided by directional antennas, and introduces a new hidden terminal problem. To address deafness, and henc...
Kwan-Wu Chin
MSWIM
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive range control using directional antennas in mobile ad hoc networks
This paper presents ARC (Adaptive Range Control), a communication range control mechanism using directional antennas to be implemented across multiple layers. ARC uses directional...
Mineo Takai, Junlan Zhou, Rajive Bagrodia
NETWORKING
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Performance of Directional Collision Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract. This paper analyzes the performance of directional collision avoidance schemes, in which antenna systems are used to direct the transmission and reception of control and ...
Yu Wang 0007, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
MOBIHOC
2002
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Directional virtual carrier sensing for directional antennas in mobile ad hoc networks
This paper presents a new carrier sensing mechanism called DVCS (Directional Virtual Carrier Sensing) for wireless communication using directional antennas. DVCS does not require ...
Mineo Takai, Jay Martin, Rajive Bagrodia, Aifeng R...