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Performance Comparisons of Directional MAC Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Network

by Khwaja Mohammad Athar Siddique, Asrar Ahmad Ansari, Zafrul Hasan, Md. Jahangeer Alam, Mohammad Shahid Kamal
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 79 - Number 11
Year of Publication: 2013
Authors: Khwaja Mohammad Athar Siddique, Asrar Ahmad Ansari, Zafrul Hasan, Md. Jahangeer Alam, Mohammad Shahid Kamal
10.5120/13784-1770

Khwaja Mohammad Athar Siddique, Asrar Ahmad Ansari, Zafrul Hasan, Md. Jahangeer Alam, Mohammad Shahid Kamal . Performance Comparisons of Directional MAC Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Network. International Journal of Computer Applications. 79, 11 ( October 2013), 12-15. DOI=10.5120/13784-1770

@article{ 10.5120/13784-1770,
author = { Khwaja Mohammad Athar Siddique, Asrar Ahmad Ansari, Zafrul Hasan, Md. Jahangeer Alam, Mohammad Shahid Kamal },
title = { Performance Comparisons of Directional MAC Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Network },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { October 2013 },
volume = { 79 },
number = { 11 },
month = { October },
year = { 2013 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 12-15 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume79/number11/13784-1770/ },
doi = { 10.5120/13784-1770 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
%0 Journal Article
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%A Khwaja Mohammad Athar Siddique
%A Asrar Ahmad Ansari
%A Zafrul Hasan
%A Md. Jahangeer Alam
%A Mohammad Shahid Kamal
%T Performance Comparisons of Directional MAC Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Network
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 79
%N 11
%P 12-15
%D 2013
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

The directional antennas increase the spatial reuse, improve the transmission reliability, extend the transmission range and/or save the power consumption in the network. However, with directional antenna's advantages, some serious issues like deaf and hidden node problem come. Due to these issues, we fail to get full exploitation of directional antennas. Several directional MAC protocol suggested in last decays to take full benefits of the antenna. In this paper, we simulate some directional MAC protocol with the help of OPNET 14. 5. We compare the simulation results of those directional MAC protocols in the terms of throughput and delay metric.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

WLAN Directional MAC ad hoc network Directional antenna