Understanding link dynamics in wireless sensor networks with dynamically steerable directional antennas

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7772 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-130

  Voigt, Thiemo ^a,b   Mottola, Luca ^b,c   Hewage, Kasun ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; IEEE STANDARDS; OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; PACKET NETWORKS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STEERABLE ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA DIRECTIONS; CHANNEL FREQUENCIES; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION; ENERGY OVERHEADS; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; NETWORK CONTENTION; PACKET RECEPTION RATE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84885931242     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36672-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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