Application of sectorised antennas and STBC to increase the capacity of hot spot WLANs in an interworked WLAN/3G network

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2962-2966

  Doufexi, Angela ^a   Tameh, Eustace ^a   Nix, Andrew ^a   Molina, Araceli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ProVision Communication Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HIPERLAN 2; Hot spot; Interworking; WLANs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE (CIR); HIPERLAN/2; HOT-SPOT; INTERWORKING;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 15344345689     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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