Throughput-coverage tradeoff in a scalable wireless mesh network

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 278-290

  Huang, Jane Hwa ^a   Wang, Li Chun ^a   Chang, Chung Ju ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Frequency planning; Multi channel and multi radio operations; Scalability issue; Throughput coverage tradeoff; Wireless mesh network (WMN)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SCALABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; USER INTERFACES;

FREQUENCY PLANNING; SCALABILITY ISSUE; THROUGHPUT-COVERAGE TRADEOFF; WIRELESS MESH NETWORK (WMN);

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 38549148734     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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