MAC protocol design and optimization for multi-hop ultra-wideband networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 4056-4065

  Cai, Lin X ^a   Cai, Lin ^b   Shen, Xuemin ^a   Mark, Jon W ^a   Zhang, Qian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Distributed exclusive region; Distributed MAC protocol; Multi hop; UWB

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; BROADBAND NETWORKS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

BROADBAND WIRELESS SERVICES; DISTRIBUTED EXCLUSIVE REGION; DISTRIBUTED MAC; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; MULTIHOP; MULTIHOP WIRELESS NETWORK; SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING GAIN; ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 73149098736     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.080155     Document Type: Article

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