Bootstrapping free-space optical networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 12 SUPPL., 2006, Pages 13-22

  Liu, Fang ^a,b   Vishkin, Uzi ^a   Milner, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Free space optical networks; Minimum degree; Spanning tree

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; COMMUNICATION NODES; DATA RATES; DISTRIBUTED APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; MINIMUM-DEGREE; NARROW BEAMS; NODE DEGREE; NP COMPLETE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; RANDOMIZED MODELS; SPANNING TREE; SPEED-UPS; WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PLANT EXTRACTS; TRANSCEIVERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 44949204419     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2006.258219     Document Type: Article

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