A joint PHY/MAC architecture for low-radiated power TH-UWB wireless ad hoc networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 567-580

  Merz, Ruben ^a   Widmer, Jörg ^a   Le Boudec, Jean Yves ^a   Radunović, Božidar ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Medium access control; Multi hop wireless networks; Simulation; System design; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION THEORY; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; DATA REDUCTION; POWER CONTROL; RADIO INTERFERENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; MULTIPLE-ACCESS MANAGEMENT; PULSED TIME-HOPPING ULTRA-WIDEBAND (TH-UWB); TIME-ASYNCHRONICITY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 23944505484     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.313     Document Type: Article

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