This book gives readers an in-depth analysis of the fundamentals behind designing on-demand medium access control (MAC) protocols for multihop wireless networks, esp. with nodes having multiple antenna technologies. This is the first attempt towards designing and analyzing on-demand, also known as contention-based, MAC protocols for multiple beam smart antennas (MBSA). The book begins with a general introduction of the state-of-art problems and solutions that then forms the basis of this book. The book then introduces mathematical models to analyze MBSA and derive basic MAC fundamentals. The...