Connected coverage in wireless networks with directional antennas

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2264-2272

  Yu, Zuoming ^a,b   Teng, Jin ^c   Bai, Xiaole ^d   Xuan, Dong ^c   Jia, Weijia ^b  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA MODEL; COMMUNICATION DISTANCE; COMMUNICATION RANGE; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; FUNDAMENTAL THEOREMS; GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; REALISTIC PHYSICAL MODEL; SCHEDULING MECHANISM; SENSING RANGES; STRONG INTERFERENCE; TRANSMISSION ENERGY;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 79960853917     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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