In mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), the limited wireless spectrum, distributed multiple
access control, low complexity, and high mobility together impose significant challenges for …

The beamforming antenna technology is a promising solution to many challenges facing
wireless ad hoc networks. Beamforming antennas have the ability to increase the spatial …

Wireless Ad hoc networks represent a powerful telecommunication infrastructure that is
being exploited for enabling general wireless networking connectivity for a variety of …

Using directional antennas in wireless mobile ad hoc networks can greatly improve the
transmission range as well as the spatial reuse. However, it will also cause some problems …

Real-time applications introduce new requirements on wireless networks and impose quality
thresholds on parameters like delay, jitter, throughput, and packet loss in order to run …

The conservative nature of the 802.11 channel access scheme has instigated extensive
research whose goal is to improve the spatial reuse and/or energy consumption of a mobile …

One of the main challenges in wireless networks is improving the network throughput and
capacity. As commodity wireless network cards support the usage of orthogonal channels …

The IEEE 802.11 [1] currently used as the WLAN standard, specifies the distributed
coordination function (DCF), which is based on carrier sense multiple access with collision …

Many multi-channel Media Access Control (MAC) protocols have been studied in the past
decade. With an eye to hardware cost and device capability, many researchers have …

(MAC) protocol for ad hoc wireless networks that can utilize multiple channels dynamically to
improve performance. IEEE 802.11 standard provides multiple channels for use, but its MAC …