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WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On Reducing Broadcast Transmission Cost and Redundancy in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Directional Antennas
—Using directional antennas to conserve bandwidth and energy consumption in ad hoc wireless networks has attracted much attention of the research community in recent years. Howev...
Ling Ding, Yifeng Shao, Minglu Li
TMC
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Energy-Aware Wireless Networking with Directional Antennas: The Case of Session-Based Broadcasting and Multicasting
We consider ad hoc wireless networks that use directional antennas and have limited energy resources. To explore quantitatively the advantage offered by the use of directional ante...
Jeffrey E. Wieselthier, Gam D. Nguyen, Anthony Eph...
ICWMC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Overview of MAC Protocols with Directional Antennas in Wireless ad hoc Networks
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...
Hongning Dai, Kam-Wing Ng, Min-You Wu
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...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 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