The infrared physical layer of the IEEE 802.11 standard for wireless local area networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 107-112

  Valadas, Rui T ^a,d   Tavares, António R ^a   De Oliveira Duarte, A M ^a,h,i,j,k   Moreira, Adriano C ^a,b,e,f   Lomba, Cipriano T ^a,c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c ENT Empresa Nac de Telecom SA   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^e Informatics Department   (Portugal)

^f IEEE   (Portugal)

^g BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^j University of Coimbra ^*  (Portugal)

^k INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED TRANSMISSION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; STANDARDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INFRARED PHYSICAL LAYER; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN);

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 0032304801     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.735887     Document Type: Article

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