Optimal beam scheduling for multicasting in wireless networks

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 205-216

  Sundaresan, Karthikeyan ^a   Ramachandran, Kishore ^a   Rangarajan, Sampath ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design; Performance

Indexed keywords

BEAM PATTERN; BEAMFORMING ANTENNA; COMPOSITE BEAM; DESIGN PERFORMANCE; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; HIGH-GAIN; MULTICAST TRANSMISSIONS; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; OPERATING POINTS; OPTIMAL ALGORITHM; OPTIMAL BEAMS; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; SWITCHED BEAMFORMING; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; TRADE-OFF CURVES; TRANSMIT POWER;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MOBILE COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 70450227316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1614320.1614343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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