On the feasibility of the link abstraction in (rural) mesh networks

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 484-492

  Gokhale, Dattatraya ^a   Sen, Sayandeep ^b   Chebrolu, Kameswari ^c   Raman, Bhaskaran ^c  

^a Indian Navy

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFOCOM; MESH NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 51349085586     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2007.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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