A cross layer MAC with explicit synchronization through intelligent feedback for multiple beam antennas

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 3196-3200

  Jain, Vivek ^a   Gupta, Anurag ^a   Lal, Dhananjay ^b   Agrawal, Dharma P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concurrent packet reception; Medium access control; Multiple beam antennas; Mutihop ad hoc networks

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT PACKET RECEPTION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MULTIPLE BEAM ANTENNAS; MUTIHOP AD HOC NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OPTIMIZATION; ROUTERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33846564030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1578365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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