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Beamforming Antennas in Wireless Networks

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It is not straightforward to leverage the potential benefits of smart beamforming antennas in multihop wireless networks. Since traditional wireless MAC protocols were originally designed with the implicit assumption that all the nodes are equipped with omni-directional antennas, they are not capable of exploiting the advantages of beamforming antennas. In addition, the new challenges, associated with directional beamforming, can offset the gains if left unaddressed as discussed in the previous chapter. In this chapter, we first discuss the main design choices for directional MAC protocols. We then present a taxonomy of the directional MAC protocols and overview some representative protocols in each class. Finally, we explain in details the operation of three major directional MAC protocols and present some simulation results to evaluate their performances.

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    Osama Bazan, Baha Uddin Kazi & Muhammad Jaseemuddin

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Bazan, O., Kazi, B.U., Jaseemuddin, M. (2021). Directional MAC. In: Beamforming Antennas in Wireless Networks. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77459-2_4

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