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ICC
2008
IEEE
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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
TPDS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
On-Demand Medium Access in Multihop Wireless Networks with Multiple Beam Smart Antennas
The paper presents a detailed discussion of various issues involved in designing a medium access control (MAC) protocol for multihop wireless networks with nodes employing multiple...
Vivek Jain, Anurag Gupta, Dharma P. Agrawal
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Directional MAC Protocol for Practical Smart Antennas
- Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas, typically referred to as directional MAC protocols, have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks. However, the MAC ...
Yuya Takatsuka, Katsushiro Nagashima, Masanori Tak...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Simple Directional Antennas: Improving Performance in Wireless Multihop Networks
— Directional antennas are a promising option for use in ad-hoc networks for a variety of reasons, such as increased spatial reuse, reduced interference and enabling more effici...
Kok-Kiong Yap, Wai-Leong Yeow, Mehul Motani, Chen-...
ICC
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Empirical Discussion on Directional MAC Protocols for Ad hoc Networks using Practice Smart Antennas
Recent studies on directional Media Access Control (MAC) protocols using smart antennas for wireless ad hoc networks have shown that directional MAC protocols outperform traditiona...
Masahiro Watanabe, Hikaru Mitsuhashi, Masaki Banda...