Energy efficient routing for wireless mesh networks with directional antennas: When Q-learning meets ant systems

I Lahsen-Cherif, L Zitoune, V Vèque - Ad Hoc Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Directional Antennas (DAs 1 ) have proved their efficiency in … in all directions as Omni-directional
Antennas (OAs). DAs provide … paths because of the high antenna gain that improves the …

Moth and ant inspired routing in hierarchical airborne networks with multi-beam antennas

L Hu, F Hu, S Kumar - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The inexpensive omni-directional antenna … The directional antenna with one beam (also
called unidirectional antenna) can focus its radiated energy in a specific direction or beam. …

When are directional antennas useful in indoor environments

X Liu, S Seshan, P Steenkiste - Proceedings of the 6th ACM international …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
… In this section, we discuss how the separation metric can help in deploying directional
antenna systems. Here, a site survey of signal strength measurements with directional device is …

Mobile ad hoc networks and energy efficiency using directional antennas: A review

N Kumai, R Kumar, R Bajaj - … computing and control systems  …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… on energy efficiency by means of directional antennas. The author has developed two … -directional
and directional antenna After simulation result shows that directional antenna are …

[PDF][PDF] Minimum-energy broadcast using practical directional antennas in all-wireless networks

S Roy, YC Hu, D Peroulis, XY Li - Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2006 …, 2006 - Citeseer
… lem using practical directional antennas. We consider a wide spectrum of directional antenna
models, including both sectored antennas which have fixed sectors and beamwidth and …

Enhanced direction of arrival estimation via received signal strength of directional antennas

RK Miranda, DA Ando, JPCL da Costa… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This work proposes a framework using an array of offthe-shelf directional antennas and a …
in any two different antennas results in a dependency only on the gains of the antennas. By …

Design criteria on a mmWave-based small cell with directional antennas

T Kim, I Bang, DK Sung - 2014 IEEE 25th Annual International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
antenna as a directional antenna [13] in order to consider more practical radiation patterns.
We use a narrow directionalant which maximizes the system capacity. If we use a smaller …

Heuristic optimization techniques for self-orientation of directional antennas in long-distance point-to-point broadband networks

BC Min, J Lewis, ET Matson, AH Smith - Ad Hoc Networks, 2013 - Elsevier
system for a directional antenna is capable of determining the best orientation to receive the
strongest wireless signal. In the event of two antennas … -orientation of directional antennas in …

An optimal mutually coupled concentric circular antenna array synthesis using ant lion optimization

A Das, D Mandal, SP Ghoshal, R Kar - Annals of Telecommunications, 2019 - Springer
… for concentric circular antenna array (CCAA) synthesis to improve the far-field radiation
characteristics using a meta-heuristic optimization technique called ant lion optimization (ALO). …

Local search for ant colony system to improve the efficiency of small meander line RFID antennas

G Weis, A Lewis, M Randall… - 2008 IEEE Congress …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Traditional manual tuning of antenna designs is becoming … Ant colony system (ACS) is a
very efficient meta-heuristic that … meander line antennas delivers effective antenna structures. In …