A CSMA/CA MAC protocol for multi-user MIMO wireless LANs

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gong, Michelle X ^a   Perahia, Eldad ^a   Stacey, Robert ^a   Want, Roy ^a   Mao, Shiwen ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; MIMO SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

BEAM-FORMING; CSMA-CA; MAC PROTOCOLS; MULTI-USER MIMO; MULTIPLE ANTENNA; MULTIPLE INPUTS; MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; MULTIUSERS; SMART ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS LANS;

MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 79551632060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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