Simple directional antennas: Improving performance in wireless multihop networks

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yap, Kok Kiong ^a   Yeow, Wai Leong ^b   Motani, Mehul ^a   Tham, Chen Khong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAC PROTOCOLS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; SIMPLE DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS (SDA);

AD HOC NETWORKS; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 39049171810     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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