Smart antenna techniques and their application to wireless ad hoc networks

JH Winters - IEEE wireless communications, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article the use of smart antennas in mobile ad hoc and mesh networks is discussed.
We first give a brief overview of smart antenna techniques and describe the issues that arise …

Attacks and countermeasures in sensor networks: a survey

K Xing, SSR Srinivasan, MJM Rivera, J Li, X Cheng - Network security, 2010 - Springer
A wireless sensor network (WSN) comprises a large number of sensors that collaboratively
monitor various environments. The sensors all together provide global views of the …

Capacity of power constrained ad-hoc networks

R Negi, A Rajeswaran - IEEE INFOCOM 2004, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Throughput capacity is a critical parameter for the design and evaluation of ad-hoc wireless
networks. Consider n identical randomly located nodes, on a unit area, forming an ad-hoc …

The capacity of wireless ad hoc networks using directional antennas

P Li, C Zhang, Y Fang - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering a disk of unit area with n nodes, we investigate the capacity of wireless
networks using directional antennas. First, we study the throughput capacity of random …

A scalable model for channel access protocols in multihop ad hoc networks

MM Carvalho, JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves - Proceedings of the 10th annual …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
A new modeling framework is introduced for the analytical study of medium access control
(MAC) protocols operating in multihop ad hoc networks. The model takes into account the …

Joint routing and scheduling in multi-radio multi-channel multi-hop wireless networks

J Zhang, H Wu, Q Zhang, B Li - 2nd International Conference …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in multi-radio multi-channel transmission technology have the potential of
substantially improving the system capacity in multi-hop wireless networks. While previous …

Improving spatial reuse in multihop wireless networks-a survey

B Alawieh, Y Zhang, C Assi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In multihop wireless ad-hoc networks, the medium access control (MAC) protocol plays a
key role in coordinating the access to the shared medium among wireless nodes. Currently …

On eavesdropping attacks in wireless sensor networks with directional antennas

HN Dai, Q Wang, D Li… - International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The eavesdropping attack is a serious security threat to a wireless sensor network (WSN)
since the eavesdropping attack is a prerequisite for other attacks. Conventional WSNs …

A survey of wormhole-based attacks and their countermeasures in wireless sensor networks

M Meghdadi, S Ozdemir, I Güler - IETE technical review, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In wormhole attacks, attackers create a low-latency link between two points in the network.
This can be achieved by either compromising two or more sensor nodes of the network or …

A unified MAC layer framework for ad-hoc networks with smart antennas

K Sundaresan, R Sivakumar - Proceedings of the 5th ACM international …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
Smart antennas represent a broad variety of antennas that differ in their performance and
transceiver complexity. The superior capabilities of smart antennas, however, can be …