An overview of using directional antennas in wireless networks

HN Dai, KW Ng, M Li, MY Wu - International journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with omni‐directional antennas, directional antennas have many merits, such as
lower interference, better spatial reuse, longer transmission range, and improved network …

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

H Dai, KW Ng, MY Wu - 2006 International Conference on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although directional antennas have been used in mobile communications systems for quite
a long time, realistic applications of directional or smart antennas in wireless ad hoc network …

[PDF][PDF] Survey on mobile ad hoc network routing protocols and cross-layer design

L Qin, T Kunz - … and Computer Engineering, Technical Report SCE …, 2004 - researchgate.net
A" mobile ad hoc network"(MANET) is an autonomous system of mobile routers connected
by wireless links. The routers are free to move randomly and organize themselves arbitrarily; …

Performance of ad hoc routing using directional antennas

RR Choudhury, NH Vaidya - Ad Hoc Networks, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates the tradeoffs involved in using directional antennas in ad hoc routing.
Although problems with utilizing directional antennas have been visited in the past, the …

A dual access mode MAC protocol for ad hoc networks using smart antennas

M Takata, K Nagashima… - 2004 IEEE International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In most of the previous research on wireless ad hoc networks, omni-directional antennas are
usually used. Smart antennas, however, may offer some benefits, ie, enhancement of spatial …

Exposing memory access regularities using object-relative memory profiling

Q Wu, A Pyatakov, A Spiridonov… - … Symposium on Code …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Memory profiling is the process of characterizing a program's memory behavior by observing
and recording its response to specific input sets. Relevant aspects of the program's memory …

Multibeam antenna-based topology control with directional power intensity for ad hoc networks

Z Huang, CC Shen - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new approach that applies multibeam directional antennas to
controlling topology by reducing the power intensity directionally instead of …

Power-efficient topology control for static wireless networks with switched beam directional antennas

V Namboodiri, L Gao, R Janaswamy - Ad Hoc Networks, 2008 - Elsevier
Topology control problems are associated with assignment of power levels to nodes of a
wireless network so that the resulting graph topology satisfies certain properties. In this …

Modelling a fuzzy time system

JT Trostle - Journal of Computer Security, 1993 - content.iospress.com
We analyze the DEC fuzzy time technique (Hu [HU]) for both a single computer system and a
network of hosts. Specifically, we investigate covert channels in a model of a fuzzy time …

A phased array antenna testbed for evaluating directionality in wireless networks

M Buettner, E Anderson, G Yee, D Saha… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
One of the most important components of any mobile system is the antenna; antenna design
can overcome or cause a number of problems that then must be addressed at other …