An adaptive, high performance mac for long-distance multihop wireless networks

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 259-270

  Nedevschi, Sergiu ^a   Patra, Rabin K ^a   Surana, Sonesh ^a   Ratnasamy, Sylvia ^b   Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan ^c   Brewer, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Long distance point to point wireless; Mac protocols; Multihop wireless

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NETWORKS; ASYMMETRIC TRAFFICS; AVERAGE DELAYS; BIPARTITE NETWORKS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; DISTRIBUTED PROTOCOLS; DYNAMIC VARIATIONS; INTER-LINK INTERFERENCES; LINK TRANSMISSIONS; LOCAL INFORMATIONS; LONG-DISTANCE POINT-TO-POINT WIRELESS; MAC PROTOCOLS; MEDIA ACCESS; MESH NETWORKS; MULTI-HOP WIRELESS NETWORKS; MULTIHOP WIRELESS; NETWORK THROUGHPUTS; PROPAGATION DELAYS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SCHEDULING CONSTRAINTS; SLOT SIZES; TRAFFIC DEMANDS; TRAFFIC LOADS; TRAFFIC PATTERNS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; MOBILE COMPUTING; PACKET NETWORKS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; THROUGHPUT; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; TOPOLOGY; TRANSMISSIONS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 60149091187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1409944.1409974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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