A practical medium access scheme for wireless Ad hoc networks employing ESPAR antennas

Conference Proceedings - 7th European Conference on Wireless Technology, ECWT2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 297-300

  Lenoble, Mathieu ^a   Hunziker, Thomas ^a   Aono, Tomoyuki ^a   Ohira, Takashi ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEAMFORMING; ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE PARASITIC ARRAY RADIATORS (ESPSAR); MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 19644380582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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