An overview of using directional antennas in wireless networks

HN Dai, KW Ng, M Li, MY Wu - … of communication systems, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… We call such wireless networks using directional antennas … of directional antennas in
wireless networks. Besides, using … the request messages by broadcasting. But to emulate omni-…

On designing MAC protocols for wireless networks using directional antennas

RR Choudhury, X Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… periodically transmit directional “hello” messages in multiple directions on the azimuth
plane. Neighbors of the transmitter may receive these “hello” messages omnidirectionally while …

Ad hoc networking with directional antennas: a complete system solution

R Ramanathan, J Redi, C Santivanez… - IEEE Journal on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
system solution. We present the first such complete system for ad hoc networking using
directional antennas, … His research interests at present are focused on mobile ad hoc wireless

Efficient broadcasting in ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas

F Dai, J Wu - … Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… research on the application of directional antennas in unicasting and … Wireless nodes with
directional antenna can control their … node id and direction id piggybacked in the message. By …

DIRC: Increasing indoor wireless capacity using directional antennas

X Liu, A Sheth, M Kaminsky, K Papagiannaki… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
… , the first system that improves indoor wireless capacity through the use of directional antennas.
… 5212 card through beacon messages. Since the driver has access to the hardware clock, …

Pure directional transmission and reception algorithms in wireless ad hoc networks with directional antennas

Z Zhang - … Conference on Communications, 2005. ICC 2005 …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
message format in both cases (neighbor discovery and making reservation). The message
… For presentation purpose, we assume that a pair of nodes with directional antennas can …

A localization scheme for wireless sensor networks using mobile anchors with directional antennas

CH Ou - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… coordinate system by means of mobile anchor nodes equipped with directional antennas. In
… in the form of a beacon message via four fixed directional antennas as it moves through the …

An overview of MAC protocols with directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks

H Dai, KW Ng, MY Wu - … International Conference on Wireless …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… related to directional antennas. In this paper, an introduction of directional antennas is given…
We give a classification of the current wireless MAC protocols using directional antennas. …

Using directional antennas for medium access control in ad hoc networks

RR Choudhury, X Yang, R Ramanathan… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
… far away, implying that messages could be delivered to the … exploits the characteristics of
directional antennas. Our design … context of directional antennas in ad hoc networks is limited. …

On neighbor discovery in wireless networks with directional antennas

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