Patent ID: 8537789

Claim:
A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) comprising: a plurality of MANET nodes each comprising a wireless transceiver, a directional antenna coupled to said wireless transceiver, and a controller cooperating therewith and operable to establish a directional wireless communication link with an adjacent MANET node based upon a time division multiple access (TDMA) implementation, exchange position information with the adjacent MANET node to calculate range and direction information, perform interference calculations based on the calculated range and direction information, the interference calculations including propagation delays between the adjacent MANET node and a pointing direction for the directional antenna, the TDMA implementation using a repeating scheduling of a plurality of temporally spaced-apart time slot units within a fixed control epoch to thereby reduce a latency of communication, and using time slots and without using a range dependent guard time therein, and determine a range to the adjacent MANET node, and to schedule time slots to offset a link delay in a received signal from the adjacent MANET node based upon the determined range.