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ICWMC
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
2006
IEEE
Although directional antennas have been used in mobile communications systems for quite a long time, realistic applications of directional or smart antennas in wireless ad hoc net...
INFOCOM
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2000
IEEE
—Using directional antennas can be beneficial for wireless ad hoc networks consisting of a collection of wireless hosts. To best utilize directional antennas, a suitable Medium ...
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...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
2006
IEEE
- 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 ...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 11 days 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...