Directional antennas and beamforming can significantly improve point-to-point wireless links
when perfectly aligned. In this letter we investigate the extreme opposite where antenna …

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 …

Connectivity is a crucial issue in wireless ad hoc networks (WANETs). Gupta and Kumar
have shown that in WANETs using omnidirectional antennas, the critical transmission range …

In this paper, we investigate the capacity bounds and throughput performance of ad hoc
wireless networks with directional antennas. The capacity of a wireless network is …

The capacity of wireless ad hoc networks is constrained by the interference caused by the
neighboring nodes. Gupta and Kumar have shown that the throughput for such networks is …

In multi-hop wireless networks, per-hop forwarding strategies that optimize local
transmissions can have a subtle impact on network performance. Motivated by a number of …

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 …

Throughput scaling laws of an ad hoc network equipping directional antennas at each node
are analyzed. More specifically, this paper considers a general framework in which the …

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