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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...
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 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
MOBIHOC
2004
ACM
13 years 10 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
MSN
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
A Directional Antenna Based Path Optimization Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Using directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks is an attractive issue due to its potential advantages such as spatial reuse, low power consumption and low chance of interfe...
Sung-Ho Kim, Young-Bae Ko
WOWMOM
2005
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
An Integrated Neighbor Discovery and MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks Using Directional Antennas
— 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...
Gentian Jakllari, Wenjie Luo, Srikanth V. Krishnam...
ICDCS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Location Estimation in Ad Hoc Networks with Directional Antennas
With the development of location aware sensor applications, location determination has become an increasingly important middleware technology. Numerous current technologies for lo...
Nipoon Malhotra, Mark D. Krasniewski, Chin-Lung Ya...
ICWMC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 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
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 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
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
DSR-Based Directional Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract— In this paper, a Dynamic Source Routing (DSR)based directional routing protocol is invoked for wireless ad hoc networks using directional antennas. This is designed to ...
Bin Hu, Hamid Gharavi
WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 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