Throughput improvement in interference limited multipath environments using a smart antenna for IEEE 802.11b WLAN

Proceedings - 2004 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference, RAWCON

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 411-414

  Ahn, Minsik ^a   Kim, Dongsu ^a   Kenney, J Stevenson ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINT (AP); MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENT; NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS (NIC); SMART ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INSERTION LOSSES; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHASE SHIFTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 14844297371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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