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PAM
2011
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
On the Potential of Fixed-Beam 60 GHz Network Interfaces in Mobile Devices
The small form-factor and significantly high bandwidth of 60 GHz wireless network interfaces make them an attractive technology for future bandwidth-hungry mobile devices. To ove...
Kishore Ramachandran, Ravi Kokku, Rajesh Mahindra,...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Connected coverage in wireless networks with directional antennas
—In this paper, we address a new unexplored problem - what are the optimal patterns to achieve connected coverage in wireless networks with directional antennas. As their name im...
Zuoming Yu, Jin Teng, Xiaole Bai, Dong Xuan, Weiji...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Construction of directional virtual backbones with minimum routing cost in wireless networks
—It is well-known that the application of directional antennas can help conserve bandwidth and energy consumption in wireless networks. Thus, to achieve efficiency in wireless n...
Ling Ding, Weili Wu, James Willson, Hongjie Du, Wo...
WICOMM
2011
13 years 6 months ago
Multi-channel power-controlled directional MAC for wireless mesh networks
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged recently as a technology for providing high-speed last mile connectivity in next-generation wireless networks. Several MAC protocols tha...
Fabio Martignon
SECON
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
SAND: Sectored-Antenna Neighbor Discovery Protocol for Wireless Networks
Abstract--Directional antennas offer many potential advantages for wireless networks such as increased network capacity, extended transmission range and reduced energy consumption....
Emad Felemban, Robert Murawski, Eylem Ekici, Sangj...
TPDS
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Resource Scheduling in Wireless Networks Using Directional Antennas
—Due to a continued increase in the speed and capacities of computing devices, combined with our society’s growing need for mobile communication capabilities, multihop wireless...
Imad Jawhar, Jie Wu, Dharma P. Agrawal
TMC
2010
190views more  TMC 2010»
13 years 9 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...
JSAC
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Modeling broadcasting using omnidirectional and directional antenna in delay tolerant networks as an epidemic dynamics
—We study broadcasting of information in a system of moving agents equipped with omnidirectional as well as directional antenna. The agent communication protocol is inspired by t...
Fernando Peruani, A. Maiti, Sanjib Sadhu, Hugues C...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On Channel-Discontinuity-Constraint Routing in Wireless Networks
Multi-channel wireless networks are increasingly being employed as infrastructure networks, e.g. in metro areas. Nodes in these networks frequently employ directional antennas to ...
Swaminathan Sankararaman, Alon Efrat, Srinivasan R...
TMC
2002
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13 years 11 months ago
Energy-Aware Wireless Networking with Directional Antennas: The Case of Session-Based Broadcasting and Multicasting
We consider ad hoc wireless networks that use directional antennas and have limited energy resources. To explore quantitatively the advantage offered by the use of directional ante...
Jeffrey E. Wieselthier, Gam D. Nguyen, Anthony Eph...