… features of directional antennas to … IEEE 802.11 DCF under the use of directional antennas.
More specifically, we define two main blocking problems when using the directional antenna. …

… In this section, we define two blocking problems of the IEEE 802.11 DCF when using directional
antennas and the corresponding two enhancements to overcome these problems. In the …

… IEEE 802.11 DCF, which is designed for omni-directional antennas, may … antennas and
existing MAC protocols. We propose variants of IEEE 802.11 DCF for multiple beam antennas in …

… the 802.11 wireless networks employing switched-beam, directional and adaptive antennas.
… is used to investigate suitable settings for 802.11 DCF parameters that provide throughput …

… Markov model of the DCF protocol to multihop … directional antenna as a means to improve
network fairness, and find that fairness can be improved significantly with directional antenna …

… of IEEE 802.11 DCF under the use of directional antennas. More specifically, we defined
CSBlocking and HOLBlocking blocking problems when using the directional antenna. These …

… as demonstrated with the IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC in this paper. … IEEE 802.11 DCF MAC
protocol, and evaluated its performance via simulation using a highly detailed directional antenna …

… problems under IEEE 802.11 using directional antennas. We … station with directional antenna
and using 802.11 protocol is … 802.11 DCF is large enough when using directional antenna …

… An example of such rules is the so called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) specified
in the IEEE 802.11 standard [5]. There are several other possibilities to avoid interference …

… PtP links (both ends with directional antennas), PtMP links (one end directional, the other end
… In this section, we develop an analytical model of IEEE 802.11 DCF that takes into account …