The deployment of directional antennas offers many advantages, such as transmission
range extension, co‐channel interference reducing, the increasing of spatial reuse degree …

In this paper, we propose a directional antenna medium access (DAMA) protocol and its
enhanced version called enhanced DAMA (EDAMA), which takes advantage of the benefits …

Recently, several MAC protocols using directional antennas, typically referred to as
directional MAC protocols, have been proposed for wireless ad hoc networks. However, the …

Recently, MAC protocols using directional antennas for wireless ad hoc networks that are
based on and similar to IEEE 802.11 type WLAN have been proposed. These protocols …

Using directional antennas can be beneficial for wireless ad hoc networks consisting of a
collection of wireless hosts. The most important benefit includes a reduction of the radio …

Recent studies on directional media access control (MAC) protocols using smart antennas
for wireless ad hoc networks have shown that directional MAC protocols outperform …

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 …

Using directional antennas in wireless mobile ad hoc networks can greatly improve the
transmission range as well as the spatial reuse. However, it will also cause some problems …

In recent years, the employment of directional antennas in ad hoc networks has increased
significantly. In this paper, we propose a multi-channel MAC protocol for directional …

Smart antenna systems not only enable users to have high quality links but also increase
network throughput by allowing spatial reuse of wireless channels by the use of directional …