On the capacity improvement of ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 108-116

  Yi, Su ^a   Pei, Yong ^b   Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ad hoc networks; Capacity; Directional antenna

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PACKET SWITCHING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS; HYBRID BEAMFORM PATTERNS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 0242443783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/778425.778429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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