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222 Use <strong>of</strong> Smart Antennas in <strong>Ad</strong> <strong>Hoc</strong> <strong>Networks</strong><br />

activities in the neighborhood. The nodes then choose the paths that are zone<br />

disjoint from the paths are already in use. For shorter paths (less than a prespecified<br />

hop-count) the zone-disjointness is ignored <strong>and</strong> the shortest path is<br />

simply chosen. However, a more careful assessment is made for longer paths.<br />

The policy is thus chosen since the increase in path length when computing<br />

zone disjoint paths for nodes that are close to each other is significant <strong>and</strong> may<br />

in fact increase the levels <strong>of</strong> interference experienced by connections that start<br />

later.<br />

7.4.4 Remarks<br />

Figure 7.11. Route Coupling<br />

In order to efficiently use directional or smart antennas a unified MAC/Routing<br />

approach is needed. The exchange <strong>of</strong> information between how transmissions<br />

are scheduled <strong>and</strong> how routes are chosen are tightly coupled. Methods that<br />

can overcome problems with regards to tracking mobile terminals <strong>and</strong> that can<br />

overcome deafness are needed. As pointed out in [5] the use <strong>of</strong> directional<br />

antennas can provide significant benefits; however, in some scenarios, if proper<br />

care is not taken, the use <strong>of</strong> these antennas can in fact cause a degradation in<br />

performance.<br />

7.5 Broadcast with Directional Antennas<br />

In mobile ad hoc networks, it is <strong>of</strong>ten required to send a broadcast packet to<br />

all nodes in the network. This is called network-wide broadcasting or simply<br />

broadcasting in the literature. For example, several route discovery protocols<br />

assume that there is a method by which packets can be propagated with infor-

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