Assessment of urban-scale wireless networks with a small number of measurements

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 187-198

  Robinson, Joshua Paul ^a   Swaminathan, Ram ^b   Knightly, Edward W ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Access network; Coverage; Deployment; Measurement assessment; Mesh networks; Signal strength; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; COVERAGE; DEPLOYMENT; MEASUREMENT ASSESSMENT; MESH NETWORKS; SIGNAL STRENGTH; WIRELESS;

ESTIMATION; LOCATION; MEASUREMENTS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MODULATION; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 60149094530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1409944.1409967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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