Directional antennas are a promising technology for use in mobile ad hoc environments. By
consuming smaller volumes than omni directional antennas, directional antennas enable …

Directional antennas can adaptively select radio signals of interest in specific directions,
while filtering out unwanted interference from other directions. Although a couple of medium …

Using directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks can significantly improve network
performance. However, serious problems, such as the deafness and hidden terminal …

Recently, MAC protocols using directional antennas for wireless ad hoc networks that are
based on and similar to IEEE 802.11 type WLAN have been proposed. These protocols …

Using directional antennas can be beneficial for wireless ad hoc networks consisting of a
collection of wireless hosts. To best utilize directional antennas, a suitable medium access …

Using directional antenna in ad hoc networks, offer many benefits in contrast to their
classical omni-directional counterparts. The most important benefits are the significant …

Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer many benefits compared with classical
omnidirectional antennas. The most important include significant increase of spatial reuse …

Although directional antennas have been used in mobile communications systems for quite
a long time, realistic applications of directional or smart antennas in wireless ad hoc network …

The use of directional antennae in ad hoc networks can provide high spatial reuse of
spectrum and antenna gains. However, employment of directional antennae poses great …

Directional antennas can adaptively select radio signals of interest in specific directions,
while filtering out unwanted interference from other directions. A couple of medium access …