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TPDS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
On-Demand Medium Access in Multihop Wireless Networks with Multiple Beam Smart Antennas
The paper presents a detailed discussion of various issues involved in designing a medium access control (MAC) protocol for multihop wireless networks with nodes employing multiple...
Vivek Jain, Anurag Gupta, Dharma P. Agrawal
SECON
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
CODE: Cooperative Medium Access for Multirate Wireless Ad Hoc Network
— Cooperative communications can help combat fading and hence can significantly increase the capacity of wireless networks. Although various schemes have been proposed to levera...
Kefeng Tan, Zhiwen Wan, Hao Zhu, Jean Andrian
ICDCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Collision Avoidance in Single-Channel Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antennas
Three collision-avoidance protocols are analyzed that use omni-directional packet reception together with omnidirectional transmissions, directional transmissions, or a combinatio...
Yu Wang, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
ADHOCNOW
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
MIMOMAN: A MIMO MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna systems present a radical way to improve the performance of wireless communications. Such systems can be utilized in wireless ad hoc n...
Joon-Sang Park, Mario Gerla
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