Exploiting low-cost directional antennas in 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks

European Microwave Week 2007 Conference Proceedings, EuMW 2007 - 10th European Conference on Wireless Technology, ECWT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 217-220

  Giorgetti, Gianni ^a,b   Cidronali, Alessandro ^a   Gupta, Sandeep K S ^b   Manes, Gianfranco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directive antenna; System level analysis; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FADING (RADIO); INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; RADIO SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANGULAR DIVERSITY; APPLICATIONS.; COMMUNICATION RANGES; COMPLEXITY CONSTRAINTS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; DIRECTIVE ANTENNA; EUROPEAN; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IEEE 802.11G; IEEE 802.15.4; IN-FIELD; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTI-PATH; NETWORK SIMULATIONS; PATCH ANTENNAS; SENSOR NODES; SIGNAL VARIABILITY; SYSTEM LEVEL ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 48149112973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECWT.2007.4403985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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