Blockage and directivity in 60 GHz wireless personal area networks: From cross-layer model to multihop MAC design

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1400-1413

  Singh, Sumit ^a   Ziliotto, Federico ^a,b   Madhow, Upamanyu ^a   Belding, Elizabeth M ^a   Rodwell, Mark ^a  

^a Santa Barbara   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

60 GHz networks; Medium Access Control (MAC); Millimeter wave propagation; Millimeter wave WPANs; Wireless personal area networks (WPAN)

Indexed keywords

60 GHZ BAND; ACCESS POINTS; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CROSS-LAYER; CROSS-LAYER MODELING; DESIGN APPROACHES; DIRECTIVITY; HUMAN BODIES; LOW COST CIRCUIT; LOW OVERHEAD; MAC PROTOCOL; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL (MAC); MILLIMETER (MM)-WAVE; MM WAVES; MOVING OBSTACLES; MULTI HOP COMMUNICATION; MULTIHOP; NET WORK UTILIZATION; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NETWORK LINKS; PACKET LEVEL SIMULATION; PATH LOSS; RELAY NODE; SINGLE-HOP COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS (WPAN);

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; MILLIMETER WAVES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84055212399     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2009.091010     Document Type: Article

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