In recent years, due to basic features of MANETs and bandwidth constraint at MAC layer the throughput, delay and maintaining connectivity has been a major focus for research. Here, different issues of MAC protocols and TCP connectivity have been surveyed in detail. Further, channel utilization can be maximized by employing spatial reuse of the wireless channel at the MAC layer. A high throughput MAC protocol called Multiple-Beam Antenna Array MAC (MBAA-MAC) is proposed and analyzed for MANETs. Proposed MBAA-MAC protocol has been simulated to evaluate its performance in terms of throughput and...