Exploiting statistical mobility models for efficient Wi-Fi deployment

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 360-373

  Wang, Tian ^a   Jia, Weijia ^b   Xing, Guoliang ^c   Li, Minming ^b  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Access point (AP) deployment; Continuous coverage; Mobility model; Wi Fi

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MODELS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TOPOLOGY;

ACCESS POINTS; CONTINUOUS COVERAGE; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; INTERACTIVE MOBILE APPLICATIONS; INTERMITTENT NETWORKS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILITY CHARACTERISTICS; MOBILITY MODEL;

WI-FI;

EID: 84884725575     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2217159     Document Type: Article

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