FFT-DMAC: A tone based MAC protocol with directional antennas

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3661-3665

  Li, Ying ^a   Li, Minglu ^a   Shu, Wei ^b   Wu, Min You ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of New Mexico

Author keywords

Directional antenna; MAC; Tone

Indexed keywords

DEAFNESS PROBLEMS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; FLIP-FLOP TONES; HIDDEN TERMINAL PROBLEMS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 39349100503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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