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GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Distributed Directional-to-Directional MAC Protocol for Asynchronous Ad Hoc Networks
— 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...
Emad Shihab, Lin Cai, Jianping Pan
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An Extended Directional MAC for Location Information Staleness in Ad Hoc Networks
Recently, several directional MAC protocols using smart antennas or directional antennas have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks including our proposed MAC protocol called...
Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 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
AINA
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Testbed with a Practical Smart Antenna for Directional MAC Protocols in Ad hoc Networks
Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas have been proposed for ad hoc networks, which are mainly evaluated by computer simulations. This paper develops a MAC pr...
Hikaru Mitsuhashi, Masahiro Watanabe, Sadao Obana,...
ICC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
An Opportunistic Directional MAC Protocol for Multihop Wireless Networks with Switched Beam Directional Antennas
— Directional antennas in multihop wireless networks offer a potential increase in the spatial reuse of the wireless channel. However, existing directional MAC protocols are not ...
Osama Bazan, Muhammad Jaseemuddin