Correlated link shadow fading in multi-hop wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 4024-4036

  Agrawal, Piyush ^a   Patwari, Neal ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Ad hoc; Correlation; Measurement; Mesh networks; Performance; Shadowing; Statistical channel model; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION MEASUREMENT; MESH NETWORK; STATISTICAL CHANNEL MODEL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

AD HOC NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING (RADIO); OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIO LINKS; SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 73149118063     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.071293     Document Type: Article

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