Beamforming on mobile devices: A first study

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 265-276

  Yu, Hang ^a   Zhong, Lin ^a   Sabharwal, Ashutosh ^a   Kao, David ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

beamadapt; beamforming; mobile devices; power efficiency

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ANTENNAS; BEAMADAPT; DEVICE MOBILITIES; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; FORM FACTORS; GUARANTEED CONVERGENCE; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; MOBILE CLIENT; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; OPTIMAL NUMBER; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER EFFICIENT; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; SINGLE ANTENNA;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BEAMFORMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; EQUIPMENT; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 80053614630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2030613.2030643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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