directional antenna

An antenna that receives or sends signals most effectively in a particular direction.

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Noun

directional antenna - an antenna that transmits or receives signals only in a narrow angle

antenna, transmitting aerial, aerial - an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

array - an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics

dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer, dish - directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

yagi, Yagi aerial - a sharply directional antenna

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Layton's book Directional Antennas Made Simple has long been the standard, most professional guide to understanding, maintaining and proofing such systems.

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Ketema Adere, Rammurthy proposed the directional antenna based MAC protocol that used with Sensor-MAC Protocol to increase the performance of the output of wireless sensor network.

Hidden and exposed nodes in wireless sensor networks

Keywords: base station; directional antenna; inter-symbol interference; propagation path delay.

MITIGATING ISI IN CELLULAR NETWORKS FOR A 3D SCATTERRED MODEL

As can be seen most of values do not vary significantly during the entire design process; however, a reduction of the 3 dB beamwidth at intermediate frequencies (9 and 12 GHz) for the planar directional antenna is appreciated.

Proposal of a planar directional UWB antenna for any desired operational bandwidth

The CR node consisted of a multi-band directional antenna connected to a commercial wideband transceiver USRP2 (universal software radio peripheral) from Ettus research lab [25], which was accessed with MATLAB for reconfiguration and baseband processing.

Directional antennas for cognitive radio: analysis and design recommendations

Omnidirectional antennas are often required in modern wireless communication systems [1-5], but the directional antennas are more favorable in some applications [6].

Design of a novel wideband loop antenna with parasitic resonators

Consider that the top-mounted directional antenna must be mounted as far forward and as close to the centerline of the airframe as possible, and it must be installed so that the horizontal base falls within a specific longitudinal and latitudinal axis while the aircraft sits in level flight.

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1a-c), namely they do not assure a reliable network structure and there occur crossings of connections between nodes pairs which makes the topology non-planar (a rather unwelcome feature of a WSN when directional antennas are in use).

A concise interference model for wireless sensor networks using directional antennas/Kryptines antenas naudojancio bevieliu jutikliu tinklo interferencijos modelis

In Section 3, we overview the directional antenna model and mmWave-based IEEE 802.11ad network in the system description.

A group-aware multicast scheme in 60GHz WLANs