An overview of using directional antennas in wireless networks

HN Dai, KW Ng, M Li, MY Wu - International journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… We call such wireless networks using omni-directional antennas as WONs. … call such wireless
networks using directional antennas as DAWNs, which usually have much higher network

On the capacity improvement of ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas

S Yi, Y Pei, S Kalyanaraman - … symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
… using omnidirectional antennas [6]. We investigate the capacity of ad … wireless networks
using directional antennas. In this work, we consider arbitrary networks and random networks

Communication in wireless networks with directional antennas

I Caragiannis, C Kaklamanis, E Kranakis… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Directional antennas seem to have wide applicability not only for improving energy
consumption but also in security of adhoc networks… in a network with directional antennas with a …

The capacity of wireless ad hoc networks using directional antennas

P Li, C Zhang, Y Fang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of wireless networks using directional antennas. First, we study the throughput capacity
of random directional networks with multihop relay schemes, and find that the capacity gain …

Directional antennas for wireless sensor networks

M Nilsson - … Scandinavian Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Networks …, 2009 - diva-portal.org
… element antenna. We have found the last type to be the most suitable for wireless sensor
networks, … of a prototype antenna for the 2.4-GHz ISM band, the SPIDA: SICS Parasitic Inter- …

Performance analysis of wireless networks with directional antennas

PC Yeh, WE Stark, SA Zummo - IEEE transactions on vehicular …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… performance for wireless networks using directional antennas. … measures of wireless
networks include network throughput … the network transport capacity of a wireless network using …

Efficient broadcasting in ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas

F Dai, J Wu - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… However, applications of directional antennas for broadcasting have been limited. We …
called directional self-pruning (DSP) for ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas. …

On the capacity of multi-channel wireless networks using directional antennas

HN Dai, KW Ng, RCW Wong… - IEEE INFOCOM 2008-The …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We derive the capacity bounds of MC-MDA networks under arbitrary … directional antennas
to multi-channel networks can greatly improve the network capacity due to increased network

On neighbor discovery in wireless networks with directional antennas

S Vasudevan, J Kurose… - Proceedings IEEE 24th …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Abstract—We consider the problem of neighbor discovery in static wireless ad hoc networks
with directional antennas. We propose several probabilistic algorithms in which nodes …

Analysis of capacity improvement by directional antennas in wireless sensor networks

J Zhang, X Jia, Y Zhou - ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2012 - dl.acm.org
… In this article we analyze capacity improvement by directional antennas over omni
antennas in wireless sensor networks. The capacity in our analysis is the end-to-end per-node …