How does randomized beamforming improve the connectivity of ad hoc networks?

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3380-3385

  Bettstetter, Christian ^a   Hartmann, Christian ^b   Moser, Clemens ^a,b  

^a DOCOMO EURO LABS   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive antennas; Antenna arrays; Beamforming; Connectivity; Path probability; Wireless multihop networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; CONNECTIVITY; PATH PROBABILITY; WIRELESS MULTIHOP NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 24144470030     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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