Floor acquisition multiple access (FAMA) for packet-radio networks
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
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
An adaptive MAC and idrectional routing protocol for ad hoc wireless network using ESPAR antenna
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
Using directional antennas for medium access control in ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
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
Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing
WMCSA '99 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications
A unified MAC layer framework for ad-hoc networks with smart antennas
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Route Recovery Mechanisms for Ad Hoc Networks Equipped with Switched Single Beam Antennas
ANSS '05 Proceedings of the 38th annual Symposium on Simulation
Directed antennas in the mobile broadband system
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 2
Using directionality in mobile routing
Wireless Networks
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This paper addresses the issue of routing in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) using directional antennas. Existing directional routing schemes either assume a complete network topology beforehand or simply use omni-directional routing schemes to forward packets in underlying directional environment. In this paper, we propose a Directional Routing Protocol (DRP) for MANETs. DRP is an on-demand directional routing protocol which assumes a cross layer interaction between routing and MAC layer and is inspired by Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol. The main features of DRP include an efficient route discovery mechanism, establishment and maintenance of directional routing and directional neighbor tables (DRT and DNT, respectively), and novel directional route recovery mechanisms. We have implemented DRP on top of MDA; a MAC protocol for directional antennas and have compared its performance with the DSR protocol over both omni-directional and directional antenna models. Our results show that DRP considerably improves the packet delivery ratio, decreases the end to end packet latency, has lesser routing overhead, and is robust to link failures.