Efficiency of wireless networks: Approximation algorithms for the physical interference model

Foundations and Trends in Networking

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 313-420

  Goussevskaia, Olga ^a   Pignolet, Yvonne Anne ^b   Wattenhofer, Roger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM ANALYSIS; INTERFERENCE MODELS; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; WIRELESS SCHEDULING;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SURVEYS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78650499006     PISSN: 1554057X     EISSN: 15540588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/1300000019     Document Type: Article

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