Characterizing WiFi link performance in open outdoor networks

2011 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 251-259

  Paul, Utpal ^a   Crepaldi, Riccardo ^b   Lee, Jeongkeun ^c   Lee, Sung Ju ^c   Etkin, Raul ^c  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

802.11N; ACCESS POINTS; ANTENNA ORIENTATION; CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES; DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; HIERARCHICAL AGGREGATION; HIGH GAIN; HIGH THROUGHPUT; IEEE802.11A; LARGE-SCALE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; LINE-OF-SIGHT LINKS; LINK PERFORMANCE; LONG DISTANCES; LONG-DISTANCE WIRELESS; MAC LAYER ENHANCEMENTS; NETWORK DEPLOYMENT; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PATH LOSS MODELS; REACHABILITY; SEISMIC DATAS;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; MESH NETWORKING; SEISMOLOGY; SENSOR NODES; STANDARDS; THROUGHPUT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WI-FI;

EID: 80052807722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2011.5984905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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