Design and experimental evaluation of multi-user beamforming in wireless LANs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 197-208

  Aryafar, Ehsan ^a   Anand, Narendra ^a   Salonidis, Theodoros ^b   Knightly, Edward W ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Technicolor   (France)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Channel information; Interference suppression; Mobility; Multi user MIMO; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CARRIER MOBILITY; CODES (SYMBOLS); INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MIMO SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CHANNEL INFORMATION; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MULTI-USER MIMO; MULTIUSER BEAMFORMING; NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS SYSTEMS; OUTDATED CHANNEL INFORMATIONS;

MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 78649307719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1859995.1860019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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