Neighbor discovery in mobile ad hoc self-configuring networks with directional antennas: Algorithms and comparisons

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1540-1549

  Zhang, Zhensheng ^a   Li, Bo ^b  

^a San Diego Research Center   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Directional antennas; Mobile ad hoc networks; Neighbor discovery; Self configuring networks

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; MOBILE AD HOC; NEIGHBOR DISCOVERY (ND); NUMERICA L RESULTS; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE (PF); PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; RANDOM ALGORITHMS; SELF-CONFIGURING NETWORKS; SIMULATION RESULTS; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; MULTITASKING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PAPER; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 44149086924     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.05908     Document Type: Article

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