Synchronization inspired from nature for wireless meshed networks

2006 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tyrrell, Alexander ^a   Auer, Gunther ^a   Bettstetter, Christian ^b  

^a DOCOMO EURO LABS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

PROPAGATION DELAYS; SELF-ORGANIZED SYSTEMS; WIRELESS MESHED NETWORKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 42749102305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WiCOM.2006.244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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