WiFiRe: Rural area broadband access using the WiFi PHY and a multisector TDD MAC

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-119

  Paul, Krishna ^a   Varghese, Anitha ^b   Iyer, Sridhar ^c   Ramamurthi, Bhaskar ^d   Kumar, Anurag ^e  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RURAL AREAS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WI-FI;

BROADBAND ACCESS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 33847678479     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2007.284546     Document Type: Article

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