Performance evaluation of medium access control for multiple-beam antenna nodes in a wireless LAN

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1117-1129

  Lal, Dhananjay ^a   Jain, Vivek ^a   Zeng, Qing An ^a   Agrawal, Dharma P ^a  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

CSMA; Slotted Aloha; Smart antennas; Throughput; Wireless ad hoc networks; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MULTIPLE BEAM ANTENNAS; SMART ANTENNAS; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 11044219935     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2004.84     Document Type: Article

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