Enhancing the performance of medium access control for WLANs with multi-beam access point

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 556-565

  Wang, Jianfeng ^a,b   Fang, Yuguang ^a,b   Wu, Dapeng ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional antennas; Medium Access Control (MAC); Performance analysis; Wireless LANs

Indexed keywords

BEAM-OVERLAPPING PROBLEM; BEAM-SYNCHRONIZATION; MULTI-BEAM WIRELESS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 33847759063     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05245     Document Type: Article

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