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TCOM
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
—In this paper, we present a model to analyze the performance of three transmission strategies with smart antennas, i.e. directional antennas with adjustable transmission power. ...
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2003
ACM
Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer many benefits compared with classical omnidirectional antennas. The most important include significant increase of spatial reuse, cov...
ICC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— 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 ...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2010
ACM
Recent work demonstrates that directional antennas have significant potential to improve wireless network capacity in indoor environments. This paper provides a broader exploratio...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...