The capacity of ad hoc wireless networks is constrained by the interference between
concurrent transmissions from neighboring nodes. Gupta and Kumar have shown that the …

Directional antennas can be useful in significantly increasing the capacity of wireless ad hoc
networks. With directional antennas, independent communications between nodes can …

The capacity of wireless ad hoc networks is affected by two key factors: the interference
among concurrent transmissions and the number of simultaneous transmissions on a single …

Considering a disk of unit area with n nodes, we investigate the capacity of wireless
networks using directional antennas. First, we study the throughput capacity of random …

Directional antennas offer tremendous potential for improving the performance of ad hoc
networks. Harnessing this potential, however, requires new mechanisms at the medium …

This paper analyzes the impact of beamforming antennas on the topological connectivity of
multihop wireless networks. As a metric for the connectivity of the network, we use the …

We consider the problem of determining rates of growth for the maximum stable throughput
achievable in dense wireless networks. We formulate this problem as one of finding …

We propose a novel medium access control (MAC) algorithm using pure directional
transmission and reception for mobile wireless ad hoc networks with directional antennas …

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 …

Beamforming antennas have the potential to provide a fundamental breakthrough in ad hoc
network capacity. We present a broad-based examination of this potential, focusing on …