DIRC: Increasing indoor wireless capacity using directional antennas

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 171-182

  Liu, Xi ^a   Sheth, Anmol ^b   Kaminsky, Michael ^b   Papagiannaki, Konstantina ^b   Seshan, Srinivasan ^a   Steenkiste, Peter ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional antenna; Indoor wireless capacity

Indexed keywords

802.11N; ACCESS POINTS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; HIGH THROUGHPUT; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MULTI-PATH EFFECT; NETWORK CAPACITY; NODE MOBILITY; OPEN PROBLEMS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; SINGLE LINK; SPATIAL REUSE; WIRELESS BANDWIDTH; WIRELESS CAPACITY; WIRELESS LINK; WIRELESS NETWORK DESIGN; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); THROUGHPUT;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70450280713     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1594977.1592589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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