Analysis and enhancements for IEEE 802.11 networks using directional antenna with opportunistic mechanisms

T Nadeem - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… that an IEEE 802.11 station with directional antenna is conservative in terms of … 802.11
networks when using directional antennas. The first enhancement is to augment the IEEE 802.11

Throughput and delay analysis of 802.11-based wireless networks using smart and directional antennas

F Babich, M Comisso - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… sustainable by an 802.11 network adopting switched-beam, directional and adaptive antennas.
Section … the influence of the 802.11 DCF parameters on network performance. Section VI …

MAC protocols using directional antennas in IEEE 802.11 based ad hoc networks

YB Ko, JM Choi, NH Vaidya - Wireless Communications and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
antennas, because these protocols have been … antennas. In this paper, we present modified
MAC protocols suitable for 802.11 based ad hoc networks using directional antennas. Our …

Throughput sensitivity to antenna pattern and orientation in 802.11 n networks

D Kong, E Mellios, D Halls, A Nix… - 2011 IEEE 22nd …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
802.11n system is derived for two different types of antenna systems. Firstly, three omni-directional
antennas … This is compared with the use of three directional antennas at the AP and …

An overview of using directional antennas in wireless networks

HN Dai, KW Ng, M Li, MY Wu - International journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Directional antennas enable numerous emerging outdoor … in wireless networks with directional
antennas (DAWNs), there … of directional antennas, antenna radiation patterns, antenna

Performance modeling for IEEE 802.11 vehicle-to-infrastructure networks with directional antennas

K Xu, BT Garrison, KC Wang - 2010 IEEE Vehicular Networking …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The objective of this paper is to derive a throughput model for IEEE 802.11-based V2I
networks. Deciding the type of antennas to deploy on future automobiles is a practical design …

A new architecture of wireless mesh networks based IEEE 802.11 s directional antennas

J Ben-Othman, L Mokdad… - 2011 IEEE International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… no work has been done on using directional antenas in IEEE 802.11s. … of IEEE 802.11s that
take the advantage of directional antennas while keeping the compatibility of the IEEE 802.11

On designing MAC protocols for wireless networks using directional antennas

RR Choudhury, X Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of using directional antennas for medium access control in wireless ad hoc networks. …
In Section 5, we describe a basic Directional MAC (DMAC) protocol that is similar to 802.11, …

Exploiting low-cost directional antennas in 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15. 4 wireless sensor networks

G Giorgetti, A Cidronali, SKS Gupta… - 2007 European …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… suppression from IEEE 802.11g systems and discuss the use of the antenna as a form of …
are analyzed to derive model parameters intended for use in future network simulations. …

Opportunistic mechanisms for IEEE 802.11 networks using directional antennas

T Nadeem - 2009 IEEE 28th International Performance …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… 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