Self-organization of wireless ad hoc networks as small worlds using long range directional beams

2011 IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops, GC Wkshps 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 120-124

  Banerjee, Abhik ^a   Agarwal, Rachit ^b   Gauthier, Vincent ^b   Yeo, Chai Kiat ^a   Afifi, Hossam ^b   Lee, Bu Sung ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DESIGN; CENTRALITY MEASURES; DESIGN ISSUES; LONG RANGE; PATH LENGTH; SMALL WORLDS; STRUCTURAL IMPORTANCE; TRAFFIC FLOW;

WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 84863341906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2011.6162373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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