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MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 6 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...
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Energy-Limited Wireless Networking with Directional Antennas: The Case of Session-Based Multicasting
— We consider ad hoc wireless networks that use directional antennas and have limited energy resources. The performance objectives of such networks depend largely on the applicat...
Jeffrey E. Wieselthier, Gam D. Nguyen, Anthony Eph...
TMC
2010
190views more  TMC 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
SAMAC: A Cross-Layer Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks with Sectored Antennas
—Wireless sensor networks have been used to gather data and information in many diverse application settings. The capacity of such networks remains a fundamental obstacle toward ...
Emad Felemban, Serdar Vural, Robert Murawski, Eyle...
TMC
2008
152views more  TMC 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
CDR-MAC: A Protocol for Full Exploitation of Directional Antennas in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
In this paper, we propose a new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for full exploitation of directional antennas in wireless networks. The protocol introduces a circular directio...
Thanasis Korakis, Gentian Jakllari, Leandros Tassi...
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Backbone Construction Methods in MANETs Using Directional Antennas
In this paper, we consider the issue of constructing an energy-efficient virtual network backbone in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) for broadcasting applications using directiona...
Shuhui Yang, Jie Wu, Fei Dai