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TPDS
2008
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13 years 8 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
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A MAC protocol for full exploitation of directional antennas in ad-hoc wireless networks
Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer many benefits compared with classical omnidirectional antennas. The most important include significant increase of spatial reuse, cov...
Thanasis Korakis, Gentian Jakllari, Leandros Tassi...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Deafness Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...
Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe
WOWMOM
2005
ACM
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14 years 2 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
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13 years 9 months ago
Cooperative cross layer MAC protocols for directional antenna ad hoc networks
Andrea Munari, Francesco Rossetto, Michele Zorzi