The demand for QoS has made its support an essential component in today's wireless
networks. The use of directional antennas in multi-hop wireless networks is known to …

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have recently emerged as a technology for next-
generation wireless networking. WMNs partially replace wired backbone networks, and it is …

We study how to achieve a desired connectivity in a wireless mesh network using
beamforming antennas. We show that there is no unique solution to this problem. We …

Due to a continued increase in the speed and capacities of computing devices, combined
with our society's growing need for mobile communication capabilities, multihop wireless …

Directional antennas have been used to solve interference and connectivity issues in
wireless networks for some time. Many scenarios have been presented and often positive …

A wireless mesh employing directional antenna, termed DMesh in this paper, can greatly
extend coverage and improve spatial reuse of wireless channels. As beaming direction of …

There are five interdependent aspects which affect the performance of multiradio
multichannel wireless mesh networks with directional antennas, namely topology control …

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has been recognized as one of the promising technologies
to provide wireless broadband access. In addition to the multi-radio multi-channel network …

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have recently emerged as a promising broadband access
infrastructure for next-generation wireless networking. Several approaches that exploit …

Directional antennas in wireless mesh networks can improve spatial reuse. However, using
them effectively needs specialized protocol support at the MAC layer, which is always not …