An overview of using directional antennas in wireless networks

HN Dai, KW Ng, M Li, MY Wu - International journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… introduction of directional antennas as well as a classification of directional antennas in
Section … Sectored antennas can select one or multiple sectors to receive or transmit at a time. In …

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 will show that deploying directional antennas to multi-channel … a multi-channel network
with a single directional antenna only … Besides, using multiple channels mitigates interference …

A MAC protocol for mobile ad hoc networks using directional antennas

A Nasipuri, S Ye, J You… - 2000 IEEE Wireless …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… that are equipped with multiple directional antennas. Use of directional antennas in ad hoc
… However, the main problem of using directional antennas in such networks is due to the …

Design algorithms for multihop packet radio networks with multiple directional antennas stations

TS Yum, KW Hung - IEEE Transactions on communications, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… multitone multiaccess with collision detection using multiple directional antennas) protocol
[4]. … of its directional antennas broadcasts different busy tones. The orientation of the antennas

Using directional antennas for medium access control in ad hoc networks

RR Choudhury, X Yang, R Ramanathan… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
… In addition, the higher gain of directional antennas allows a node to communicate with other
… the characteristics of directional antennas. Our design focuses on using multi-hop RTSs to …

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

S Yi, Y Pei, S Kalyanaraman - Proceedings of the 4th ACM international …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
… that are equipped with multiple directional antennas. Their … indicate that by using four
directional antennas in each node, … by using CSMA/CA with omnidirectional antennas. Ko et al. [7…

Performance evaluation of multiple access protocols for ad hoc networks using directional antennas

T ElBatt, T Anderson, B Ryu - 2003 IEEE Wireless …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… required directiondirectional antennas. Finally, we conduct a simulation study that shows
considerable performance gains of the proposed scheme over the omni-directional, directional

DMesh: incorporating practical directional antennas in multichannel wireless mesh networks

SM Das, H Pucha, D Koutsonikolas… - IEEE Journal on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In Section II, we describe DMesh, our architecture for a wireless mesh network with directional
antennas and multiple channels. Our evaluation methodology and results are detailed in …

Transmission scheduling in ad hoc networks with directional antennas

L Bao, JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves - Proceedings of the 8th annual …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
… We propose a distributed receiver-oriented multiple access (… with directional antennas, each
of which can form multiple … the multi-beam forming capability of directional antennas in both …

Enhancing parasitic interference directional antennas with multiple director elements

J Schandy, L Steinfeld, B Rodríguez… - Wireless …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… power in a given direction, increasing the maximum gain, … use of the SPIDA antenna, showing
that using multiple director … director element antenna against 8.2 dBi for the antenna with …