Mitigating deafness in multiple beamforming antennas

2006 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jain, Vivek ^a   Agrawal, Dharma P ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming antennas; Deafness; Medium access control; Wireless ad hoc networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS;

BEAMFORMING ANTENNAS; DEAFNESS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MULTIPLE BEAMFORMING; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 50649087058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SARNOF.2006.4534749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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