Exploring indoor white spaces in metropolises

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 255-266

  Ying, Xuhang ^a   Zhang, Jincheng ^a   Yan, Lichao ^a   Zhang, Guanglin ^a   Chen, Minghua ^a   Chandra, Ranveer ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering algorithms; Sensor placement; Tv white spaces

Indexed keywords

DIVERSE LOCATIONS; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LARGE-SCALE MEASUREMENT; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; SENSOR PLACEMENT; SPECTRUM OCCUPANCIES; TV WHITE SPACES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MOBILE COMPUTING;

DESIGN;

EID: 84887108843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2500423.2500439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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