An integrated neighbor discovery and MAC protocol for ad hoc networks using directional antennas

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1114-1124

  Jakllari, Gentian ^a   Wenjie, Luo ^a   Krishnamurthy, Srikanth V ^a  

^a University of California Riverside ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Directional antennas

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MOBILE ANTENNAS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; THROUGHPUT; TRANSCEIVERS;

DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; MAC PROTOCOLS; PER NODE UTILIZATION; SPATIAL DIVERSITY GAINS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 33947602238     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05471     Document Type: Article

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