Improving network throughput in 60GHz WLANs via multi-AP diversity

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4803-4807

  Zhang, Xu ^a   Zhou, Sheng ^a   Wang, Xiaolei ^a   Niu, Zhisheng ^a   Lin, Xiaokang ^a   Zhu, Dalin ^b   Lei, Ming ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEC Laboratories China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROLLERS; AP SELECTION; CONSECUTIVE TRANSMISSION; HIGH DATA RATE APPLICATIONS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MAC LAYER; MM-WAVE; MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; PARTIALLY OBSERVED MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; REDUCED COMPLEXITY;

MARKOV PROCESSES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTIMIZATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84871954089     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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