Towards adaptive beamforming in indoor wireless networks: An experimental approach

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2621-2625

  Lakshmanan, Sriram ^a   Sundaresan, Karthikeyan ^b   Kokku, Ravi ^b   Khojestepour, Amir ^b   Rangarajan, Sampath ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; CHANNEL COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FREQUENCY OFFSETS; HARDWARE MODIFICATIONS; HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY; MULTI-PATH; MULTIELEMENT ARRAY; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; REALIZABILITY; SOFTWARE RADIO PLATFORM; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; WIRELESS STANDARDS;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 70349656166     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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