The paper describes the design and evaluation of AdHoc extensions to the IEEE 802.15.3 Medium Access Control (MAC) layer for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). The proposed ...
Samir Datta, Ivan Seskar, Mustafa Demirhan, Siun-C...
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...
Cooperative communications fully leverages the broadcast nature of the wireless channel and spatial diversity, thereby achieving tremendous improvements in system capacity and dela...
— 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...
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...