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WCNC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On Collision-Tolerant Transmission with Directional Antennas
—The application of directional antennas in wireless networks brings numerous benefits, such as increased spatial reuse and mitigated interferences. Most MAC protocols with dire...
Hongning Dai, Kam-Wing Ng, Min-You Wu
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Drive-By Localization of Roadside WiFi Networks
—We use a steerable beam directional antenna mounted on a moving vehicle to localize roadside WiFi access points (APs), located outdoors or inside buildings. Localizing APs is an...
Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Pralhad Deshpande, Jie G...
ICC
2008
IEEE
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Link Scheduling and Power Control in Wireless Mesh Networks with Directional Antennas
— Directional antennas are very attractive in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN). We study the problem of link scheduling and power control in a Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA) WM...
Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Abu Ahmed Reaz, Sudhir S. D...
ICC
2008
IEEE
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Practical Routing and Channel Assignment Scheme for Mesh Networks with Directional Antennas
Abstract— Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has been recognized as one of the promising technologies to provide wireless broadband access. In addition to the multi-radio multi-channel ...
Wei Zhou, Xi Chen, Daji Qiao
ICC
2008
IEEE
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An Opportunistic Directional MAC Protocol for Multihop Wireless Networks with Switched Beam Directional Antennas
— Directional antennas in multihop wireless networks offer a potential increase in the spatial reuse of the wireless channel. However, existing directional MAC protocols are not ...
Osama Bazan, Muhammad Jaseemuddin
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Capacity Analysis of Wireless Mesh Networks with Omni or Directional Antennas
—In this paper we analyze the capacity of wireless mesh networks that use omni or directional antennas. The capacity in our analysis is the end-to-end per-node throughput. Our an...
Jun Zhang, Xiaohua Jia
PAM
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Myth of Spatial Reuse with Directional Antennas in Indoor Wireless Networks
Abstract. Interference among co-channel users is a fundamental problem in wireless networks, which prevents nearby links from operating concurrently. Directional antennas allow the...
Sriram Lakshmanan, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Sampath...
ICDCN
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Bandwidth Provisioning in Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks Employing Directional Antennas
Abstract— Motivated by the widespread proliferation of wireless networks employing directional antennas, we study the problem of provisioning bandwidth in such networks. Given a ...
Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Bo Zhao, Sudarshan V...
MOBIHOC
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
On the capacity improvement of ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas
The capacity of ad hoc wireless networks is constrained by the interference between concurrent transmissions from neighboring nodes. Gupta and Kumar have shown that the capacity o...
Su Yi, Yong Pei, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
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...