CAESAR: Carrier sense-based ranging in off-the-shelf 802.11 wireless LAN

Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Giustiniano, Domenico ^a   Mangold, Stefan ^a  

^a DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

802.11 WIRELESS LAN; COMMODITY HARDWARE; DETECTION TIME; IDLE TIME; MULTI-PATH; NETWORK CONDITION; RADIO ENVIRONMENT; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SMARTPHONES; SOFTWARE-BASED SOLUTIONS; TIME OF FLIGHT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SIGNALS;

COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84855674966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2079296.2079306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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