@INPROCEEDINGS{Anderson2009Impact,
  author = {Eric Anderson and Gary Yee and Caleb Phillips and Dirk Grunwald and
	Doug Sicker},
  title = {The Impact of Directional Antenna Models on Simulation Accuracy},
  booktitle = {7th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc,
	and Wireless Networks ({WiOpt})},
  year = {2009},
  month = {June},
  abstract = {Increasingly, directional antennas are being used in wireless networking
	research and applications. Directional antennas show much promise
	for increasing the performance of wireless networks while simultaneously
	avoiding interference. However, the environmental effects on the
	directionality of these antennas, particularly in complex environments,
	is not well understood. We observe that state of the art simulators
	make simplifying assumptions that may not be realistic and could
	give a misleading picture of application layer performance. In this
	paper, we apply a new empirical simulation method for directional
	antennas and study how well this models reality. We show that not
	only is our model easy to implement, but is also more accurate and
	thus better able to predict the performance of popular applications
	such as data striping, which we use in this work.},
  owner = {andersoe},
  timestamp = {2009.01.03}
}