A multiple-beam antenna protocol at a wireless access point for exploiting spatial parallelism

2004 IEEE/Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 23-26

  Lal, Dhananjay ^a   Agrawal, Dharma P ^a  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DATA TRANSFER; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ACCESS POINT (AP); DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION FUNCTION (DCF); PARALLEL PACKET TRANSMISSION; SMART ANTENNAS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 4143089271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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