An overview of using directional antennas in wireless networks

HN Dai, KW Ng, M Li, MY Wu - International journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… We call such wireless networks using omni-directional antennas as WONs. … call such wireless
networks using directional antennas as DAWNs, which usually have much higher network

On the capacity improvement of ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas

S Yi, Y Pei, S Kalyanaraman - … symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
… using omnidirectional antennas [6]. We investigate the capacity of ad … wireless networks
using directional antennas. In this work, we consider arbitrary networks and random networks

Communication in wireless networks with directional antennas

I Caragiannis, C Kaklamanis, E Kranakis… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Directional antennas seem to have wide applicability not only for improving energy
consumption but also in security of adhoc networks… in a network with directional antennas with a …

Efficient broadcasting in ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas

F Dai, J Wu - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless nodes with directional antenna can control their radiation pattern to reduce … ] have
been proposed for efficient broadcasting using directional antennas. However, most of them …

On the capacity of multi-channel wireless networks using directional antennas

HN Dai, KW Ng, RCW Wong… - IEEE INFOCOM 2008-The …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We derive the capacity bounds of MC-MDA networks under arbitrary … directional antennas
to multi-channel networks can greatly improve the network capacity due to increased network

The capacity of wireless ad hoc networks using directional antennas

P Li, C Zhang, Y Fang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of wireless networks using directional antennas. First, we study the throughput capacity
of random directional networks with multihop relay schemes, and find that the capacity gain …

Performance analysis of wireless networks with directional antennas

PC Yeh, WE Stark, SA Zummo - IEEE transactions on vehicular …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… performance for wireless networks using directional antennas. … measures of wireless
networks include network throughput … the network transport capacity of a wireless network using …

On neighbor discovery in wireless networks with directional antennas

S Vasudevan, J Kurose… - Proceedings IEEE 24th …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Abstract—We consider the problem of neighbor discovery in static wireless ad hoc networks
with directional antennas. We propose several probabilistic algorithms in which nodes …

On designing MAC protocols for wireless networks using directional antennas

RR Choudhury, X Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of using directional antennas for medium access control in wireless ad hoc networks. Previous
… the rising interest in utilizing directional antennas more effectively for wireless networks. …

DIRC: Increasing indoor wireless capacity using directional antennas

X Liu, A Sheth, M Kaminsky, K Papagiannaki… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
… exacerbates the presence of hidden and exposed terminals in the network [23], … wireless
network design that improves spatial reuse in indoor environments using directional antennas