… Abstract—This paper addresses deafness – a problem that appears when MAC protocols
are designed using directional antennas. Briefly, deafness is caused when a transmitter fails to …

… issue of deafness in directional antennas for wireless ad hoc networks. Deafness is caused
… other antenna beam. In this paper, we first outline different factors which contribute to such …

… We address deafness and directional hidden terminal problem that occur when MAC
protocols are designed for directional antenna based wireless multi-hop networks. Deafness …

… In this paper, we introduce a MAC protocol for directional antennas (MDA) for use in …
deafness problem by employing an efficient scheme of selective diametrically opposite directional (…

… that occurs among nodes using directional antennas. This chapter concentrates on the
problem of deafness, which is introduced due to the use of directional antennas in wireless ad-…

… We address deafness and directional hidden terminal problem that occur when MAC
protocols are designed for directional antenna based wireless multi-hop networks. Deafness …

… IEEE 802.11 schemes into directional MAC protocols, which … to alleviate the stalwart deafness
problem due to the unheard … deafness problems, and outperform the existing directional …

… This paper thoroughly explores the deafness problem and proposes a new MAC scheme …
investigated the deafness problem in wireless ad hoc networks with directional antennas and …

… the deafness and hidden terminal problems arising from utilizing directional antennas in
wireless … We also discovered a new type of deafness problems, which happens to be the one to …

… Abstract—In this paper, we address a problem of 3D directional deafness… antenna with the
same half-power beamwidth. Finally, we study the effects of antenna settings on the deafness …