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ICWMC
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 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
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Directional NAV Indicators and Orthogonal Routing for Smart Antenna Based Ad Hoc Networks
Smart antennas are expected to enhance scalability in ad hoc networks. This paper at first evaluates three directional MAC protocols, DMAC, MMAC and SWAMP as well as the omni-dir...
Masanori Sekido, Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, T...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Distributed Directional-to-Directional MAC Protocol for Asynchronous Ad Hoc Networks
— The use of directional antennae in ad hoc networks has received growing attention in recent years. However, most existing directional MAC protocols assume interchangeable direc...
Emad Shihab, Lin Cai, Jianping Pan
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Medium Access Control Protocols using Directional Antennas in Ad Hoc Networks
—Using directional antennas can be beneficial for wireless ad hoc networks consisting of a collection of wireless hosts. To best utilize directional antennas, a suitable Medium ...
Young-Bae Ko, Vinaychandra Shankarkumar, Nitin H. ...
TCOM
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Transmission Radius Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Smart Antennas
—In this paper, we present a model to analyze the performance of three transmission strategies with smart antennas, i.e. directional antennas with adjustable transmission power. ...
Fei Huang, Ka-Cheong Leung, Victor O. K. Li