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MOBIHOC
2002
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Directional virtual carrier sensing for directional antennas in mobile ad hoc networks
This paper presents a new carrier sensing mechanism called DVCS (Directional Virtual Carrier Sensing) for wireless communication using directional antennas. DVCS does not require ...
Mineo Takai, Jay Martin, Rajive Bagrodia, Aifeng R...
ICWMC
2006
IEEE
13 years 9 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
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 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
TPDS
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Efficient Directional Network Backbone Construction in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
In this paper, we consider the issue of constructing an energy-efficient virtual network backbone in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) for broadcasting applications using directiona...
Shuhui Yang, Jie Wu, Fei Dai
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Busy-Tone Based MAC Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antennas
— Applying directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks offers numerous benefits, such as extended communication range, increased spatial reuse, improved capacity and suppre...
Hongning Dai, Kam-Wing Ng, Min-You Wu