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SENSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Interest dissemination with directional antennas for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks
Introducing mobile data sinks into wireless sensor networks (WSNs) improves the energy efficiency and the network lifetime, and is demanded for many application scenarios, such a...
Yihong Wu, Lin Zhang, Yiqun Wu, Zhisheng Niu
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
DIRC: increasing indoor wireless capacity using directional antennas
The demand for wireless bandwidth in indoor environments such as homes and offices continues to increase rapidly. Although wireless technologies such as MIMO can reach link throug...
Xi Liu, Anmol Sheth, Michael Kaminsky, Konstantina...
ICDCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months 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
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Adjustable Transmission Power in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Smart Antennas
—In this paper, we present a model to analyze the performance of wireless ad hoc networks with smart antennas, i.e. directional antennas with adjustable transmission power. Our r...
Fei Huang, Victor O. K. Li, Ka-Cheong Leung
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
MobiSteer: using steerable beam directional antenna for vehicular network access
In this work, we investigate the use of directional antennas and beam steering techniques to improve performance of 802.11 links in the context of communication between a moving v...
Vishnu Navda, Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Kannan Dha...