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MOBIHOC
2002
ACM
14 years 4 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...
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
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Energy-Limited Wireless Networking with Directional Antennas: The Case of Session-Based Multicasting
— We consider ad hoc wireless networks that use directional antennas and have limited energy resources. The performance objectives of such networks depend largely on the applicat...
Jeffrey E. Wieselthier, Gam D. Nguyen, Anthony Eph...
BROADNETS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the Use of Smart Antennas in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
— Smart antennas include a broad range of antenna technologies ranging from the simple switched beam to the more sophisticated adaptive arrays and multiple input multiple output ...
Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Sriram Lakshmanan, Raghupa...
TMC
2008
152views more  TMC 2008»
13 years 4 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...