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PEWASUN
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient deafness avoidance in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks with directional antennas
Using directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks can significantly improve network performance. However, the deafness problem greatly limits the network performance. This pa...
Yihu Li, Ahmed M. Safwat
MOBIHOC
2004
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Antenna orientation optimization for minimum-energy multicast tree construction in wireless ad hoc networks with directional ant
Energy conservation is a critical issue in wireless ad hoc networks since batteries are the only energy source to power the nodes. One major metric for energy conservation is to r...
Song Guo, Oliver W. W. Yang
TMC
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
CDR-MAC: A Protocol for Full Exploitation of Directional Antennas in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
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...
Thanasis Korakis, Gentian Jakllari, Leandros Tassi...
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Energy Efficient Communications in Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antennas
— Directional antennas can be useful in significantly increasing node and network lifetime in wireless ad hoc networks. In order to utilize directional antennas, an algorithm is ...
Akis Spyropoulos, Cauligi S. Raghavendra
TMC
2002
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13 years 5 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...