Beam switching support to resolve link-blockage problem in 60 GHz WPANs

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 390-394

  An, Xueli ^a   Sum, Chin Sean ^b   Prasad, R Venkatesha ^a   Wang, Junyi ^b   Lan, Zhou ^b   Wang, Jing ^a   Hekmat, Ramin ^a   Harada, Hiroshi ^b   Niemegeers, Ignas ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIO COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SWITCHING;

60-GHZ RADIO; ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; BEAM SWITCHING; DECISION-BASED; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; LINE-OF-SIGHT LINKS; POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATION; RECEIVED SIGNALS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 77952805753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2009.5449837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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