A measurement study of inter-vehicular communication using steerable beam directional antenna

VANET'08 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 7-16

  Subramanian, Anand Prabhu ^a   Navda, Vishnu ^b   Deshpande, Pralhad ^a   Das, Samir R ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Inter vehicular communication; Steerable directional antenna

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ANTENNA ARRAYS; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; AUTOMOBILE STEERING EQUIPMENT; BEAMFORMING; COMMUNICATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STEERING;

ANTENNA BEAMS; BEAM STEERING; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; INTER-VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION; LAYER DATUM; LINK LAYERS; MEASUREMENT STUDIES; MULTI HOPS; PERFORMANCE GAINS; PHASED-ARRAY ANTENNAS; ROADS AND HIGHWAYS; STEERABLE BEAMS; STEERABLE DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; V2V COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICLE TO VEHICLES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 59249093530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1410043.1410046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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