Hop distances and flooding in multihop networks with randomized beamforming

ACM MSWiM 2005 - Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 20-27

  Vilzmann, Robert ^a   Bettstetter, Christian ^b   Medina, Daniel ^b   Hartmann, Christian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DOCOMO EURO LABS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive antennas; Antenna arrays; Beamforming; Flooding; Hop distance; Topology; Wireless multihop networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; FREQUENCY HOPPING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TOPOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNAS; HOP DISTANCES; RANDOMIZED BEAMFORMING; WIRELESS MULTIHOP NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748974968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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