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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
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
TCOM
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Transmission Radius Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Smart Antennas
—In this paper, we present a model to analyze the performance of three transmission strategies with smart antennas, i.e. directional antennas with adjustable transmission power. ...
Fei Huang, Ka-Cheong Leung, Victor O. K. Li
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A MAC protocol for full exploitation of directional antennas in ad-hoc wireless networks
Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer many benefits compared with classical omnidirectional antennas. The most important include significant increase of spatial reuse, cov...
Thanasis Korakis, Gentian Jakllari, Leandros Tassi...
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
rDCF: a relay-enabled medium access control protocol for wireless ad hoc networks
—It is well known that IEEE 802.11 provides a physical layer multirate capability and, hence, MAC layer mechanisms are needed to exploit this capability. Several solutions have b...
Hao Zhu, Guohong Cao