The use of directional antennas in wireless networks has received growing attention
because of its high spatial reuse and high antenna gains. The Medium Access Control …

The deployment of directional antennas offers many advantages, such as transmission
range extension, co‐channel interference reducing, the increasing of spatial reuse degree …

Directional antennas have tremendous potential for improving the performance of wireless
ad-hoc networks. While offering higher spatial reutilization and larger transmission range …

The deployment of traditional higher layer protocols (especially the IEEE 802.11 MAC
protocol at the MAC layer) with directional antennae could lead to problems from an …

In the context of single frequency band and omnidirectional communication, the throughput
of wireless network is interference limited. Collision may occur if other signals impinge the …

This report addresses the problem of using directional antennas in ad hoc routing. Although
the problems with utilizing directional antennas have been visited in the past, the research …

Use of directional antenna in the context of ad hoc wireless networks can largely reduce
radio interference, thereby improving the utilization of wireless medium. Our major …

Many MAC sub-layer protocols for supporting the use of directional antennas in ad hoc
networks have been proposed. However, there remain two open issues that are yet to be …

With the continued increase of speed and capacities of computing devices and the growing
needs of people for mobile computing capabilities, Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have …

Recently, several directional MAC protocols using smart antennas or directional antennas
have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks including our proposed MAC protocol …