The principles of the present invention provides for using directional
antennas to mitigate the effects of interference in a wireless network.
An antenna device includes an omni-directional antenna and at least one
directional antenna. Each directional antenna (e.g., an electronically
steered phased array antenna) can have one or more feeds for directing
beams at wireless devices. The antenna device utilizes the
omni-directional antenna to send and receive control data that
facilitates locating wireless devices and determining when a wireless
device is to send program data to or receive program data from the
antenna device. The antenna device utilizes directional antennas to send
program data to and receive program data from wireless devices. Since
directional antennas use directional beams, directional antennas can be
tuned channels with reduced interference based on the location of
wireless devices relative to the antenna device.