On the performance of ad hoc networks with beamforming antennas
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Directional virtual carrier sensing for directional antennas in mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Transmission scheduling in ad hoc networks with directional antennas
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A MAC protocol for full exploitation of directional antennas in ad-hoc wireless networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
On the capacity improvement of ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Carrier-sense protocols for packet-switched smart antenna basestations
ICNP '97 Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '97)
Deafness: A MAC Problem in Ad Hoc Networks when using Directional Antennas
ICNP '04 Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Directional collision avoidance in ad hoc networks
Performance Evaluation - Special issue: Distributed systems performance
Ad hoc networking with directional antennas: a complete system solution
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Utilizing directional links can augment the performance of omni-directional tactical MANETs. In this paper, we report the results of a modeling and simulation study focused on capturing the performance enhancement of tactical MANETs measured in terms of throughput and delay. We compare the performance enhancements of two alternatives for the integration of directional capability with omni-directional tactical MANET stack. While the first alternative utilizes a standard layered MANET stack, the second alternative takes advantage of a modified stack that can cope with the undesired effects of mobility by inserting an extra layer referred to as mobile layer between the data link layer and the network layer. Consequently, the standard and modified stacks integrate the directional capability at the network and mobile layer, respectively. Our findings show that integration at the mobile layer provides significant throughput and delay improvements and as such is the preferred way of adding the directional capability to omnidirectional MANET stack. Based on our results and in conjunction with the mobility mitigation characteristics, we conclude that the modified stack represents a better alternative than the standard stack for use with military programs such as JTRS GMR and FCS.