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Mobile Ad Hoc Networking for the Transformed Army (MANTA) - Mitre

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Background<br />

Directional communications<br />

– Consume smaller bandwidth volumes, thus<br />

enabling increased spatial reuse of spectrum<br />

resulting in increased network capacity<br />

– Provide stealth <strong>for</strong> airborne plat<strong>for</strong>ms<br />

A B<br />

Bandwidth Volume Consumed<br />

With Omni Directional Communications<br />

3<br />

1<br />

2<br />

1<br />

2 3<br />

A B<br />

Bandwidth Volume Consumed<br />

When Each Node Has 3<br />

Directiona l Sector Antennas<br />

QoS requires predictable channel access<br />

But existing contention-based access schemes<br />

rely upon omni-directional communications<br />

and random access...<br />

© 2004, The MITRE Corporation

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