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MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 4 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...
WOWMOM
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
— Many MAC sub-layer protocols for supporting the usage of directional antennas in ad hoc networks have been proposed in literature. However, there remain two open issues that ar...
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...
ICC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
— The use of directional antennas in mobile ad hoc networks has shown to offer large potential throughput gains relative to omnidirectional antennas. When used in ad hoc networks...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
— Space-time communications can help combat fading and hence can significantly increase the capacity of ad hoc networks. Cooperative diversity or virtual antenna arrays facilita...