… The neighbor discovery algorithm is briefly described in Section 3. In Section 4, we present
the detailed directional transmission and reception algorithm. Simple analysis about the …

… antennas or omnidirectional reception capability are assumed at all. The proposed algorithm
… In this article we have proposed a pure directional transmission/reception TDMA algorithm …

… assumption about directional transmission/reception (no omni-antennas or omni-directional
reception … In Section 2, we briefly review the directional transmission and reception algorithm …

… when both transmission and reception are directional, where α and β denote the transmitter
… Device complexity: It often requires complicated algorithms to direct the antenna beams, …

… directional algorithms can discover neighbors in less time than those algorithms using
omnidirectional antennas… be realized with directional transmission/reception (compared with omni-…

… directional algorithms can discover neighbors in less time than those algorithms using
omni-directional antennas… or more neighbors exist in the same reception beam. The collision case …

… ad hoc networks with directional antennas. We propose several probabilistic algorithms
in which … pattern as a circular sector with angle 9 and radius equal to the transmission/reception …

… directional antennas so that a particular antenna will not be … destination to source
acknowledgment and as a busy signal to alert other stations that a successful packet reception is …

… directional antennas and their classification in Section 2. We then introduce the MAC issues
caused by directional antennas … The Direction of arrival (DoA) algorithm for signal reception …

… to use directional antennas is nontrivial. We show that the original self-pruning algorithm in
[31] … that support shortest path routing and directional reception mode. The remainder of this …