Experimental characterization of sectorized antennas in dense 802.11 wireless mesh networks

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 259-268

  Prabhu, Anand ^a   Lundgren, Henrik ^b   Salonidis, Theodoros ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FCA UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dense wireless mesh networks; Directional hidden terminal problem; Sector selection; Sectorized antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERNS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIDDEN TERMINAL PROBLEMS; PHYSICAL LAYER CAPTURES; REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE; SECTOR ANTENNAS; SECTOR SELECTION; SECTORIZED ANTENNA; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SPATIAL REUSE; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TOPOLOGY CONTROL PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS NETWORK CAPACITY;

AD HOC NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70450202366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1530748.1530784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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