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MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 5 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...
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2005
IEEE
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...
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
— 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...
TMC
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
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...
ICDCS
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
Three collision-avoidance protocols are analyzed that use omni-directional packet reception together with omnidirectional transmissions, directional transmissions, or a combinatio...