A topology control approach to using directional antennas in wireless mesh networks

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 4083-4088

  Kumar, Umesh ^a   Gupta, Himanshu ^a   Das, Samir R ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; INTERFERENCE TOPOLOGIES; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 42549084332     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.255720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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