Direction finding in IEEE802.11 wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 940-948

  Kalis, Antonis ^a   Antonakopoulos, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation; Directive antennas; IEEE80211; Indoor radio communications; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

DIRECTION FINDING METHOD; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER FUNCTIONS; SWITCHED BEAM ARRAY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036825355     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.807806     Document Type: Article

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