… use of directional antennas on energy consumption. In Section 4, we define the multicasting
… In Section 5, we present our algorithms for broadcast and multicast-tree construction, which …

… power efficient broadcast and multicast routing in wireless ad hoc networks with
directional antennas. We formally formulate the Minimum Power Multicasting/Broadcasting (PMDA/PBDA…

… Then, we define efficient broadcasting using directional antennas as an optimization problem.
… layer support for effective multicast/broadcast using directional antennas via mitigating the …

… for broadcasting and multicasting with directional antennas: • … omnidirectional antennas; then
reduce each antenna beam to … tree; • Incorporate directional antenna properties into the tree…

… As our main focus is to apply directional antennas to multicast communication, packet
transmission for multicast packets is generally done in the broadcast mode at the MAC layer. For …

… broadcast/multicast routing problem (D-IPCB/M) in wireless ad hoc networks using directional
antenna … interference and power constrained broadcast/multicast routing problem (DB-D-…

… The adaptive directional antenna is an effective tool in controlling the above-mentioned … to
linearly model the multicast/broadcast interference in the presence of directional antennas. In …

… In the lifetime feasibility problem, we consider broadcast, which is a special case of multicast,
where a node S needs to transmit data to all other nodes. We let θmin = θmax and denote it …

… Unlike the broadcast mode, the multicast service can only be … multicast users’ groups as
the items, whereas directional … users to multicast groups covered by the directional beams. …

… antenna into the ITCN receive antenna since the broadcast transmission signal may be
continuously present in the time domain. With the high capacity offered by ATSC 3.0, especially …