An opportunistic directional MAC protocol for multihop wireless networks with switched beam directional antennas

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2775-2779

  Bazan, Osama ^a   Jaseemuddin, Muhammad ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directional antennas; Medium access control; Multihop wireless networks

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MULTIHOP WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 51249118239     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2008.523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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