The demand for wireless bandwidth in indoor environments such as homes and offices
continues to increase rapidly. Although wireless technologies such as MIMO can reach link …

Recent work demonstrates that directional antennas have significant potential to improve
wireless network capacity in indoor environments. This paper provides a broader …

In recent years, researches on smart phone services have received a lot of attention in both
of the industry and academia due to a wide range of potential applications. Among them …

A directional antenna can bring benefits in terms of power consumption, spatial reuse, etc.
To exploit the advantage of directional antennas and improve the transmission throughput …

A cross-layer framework is introduced for the effective dissemination of real-time and elastic
traffic in multihop wireless networks called Scheduling and Traffic Management in Ordered …

Smart antenna (or multi-beam antenna) systems can support simultaneous transmissions (or
receptions) of multiple packets in different beams using the same channel. However …

In this paper, we study medium access control (MAC) protocols with quality-of-service (QoS)
support, that is, topology-independent link activation transmission scheduling, for mobile …

In opportunistic radio access based Software defined Cognitive-MAC protocols, Common
Control Channel (CCC) plays a significant role in providing node synchronization, legitimate …

The capacity of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) has significantly increased with the recent
addition of multiple transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx)(MTR) capability or smart antennas. This …

In this paper we designed a modern Medium access control (MAC) protocol for wireless ad-
hoc network that focuses on neighbor node information availability and uses directional …