Experimental evaluation of a wireless community mesh network

MSWiM 2013 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-30

  Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç ^a   Neumann, Axel ^a   Escrich, Pau ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Guifinet Foundation   (Spain)

Author keywords

802.11an; experimental evaluation; wireless community networks; wireless mesh networks

Indexed keywords

802.11AN; BARCELONA , SPAIN; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; PRODUCTION NETWORK; TIME-VARYING CHARACTERISTICS; WIRELESS COMMUNITY NETWORKS;

MESH NETWORKING; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

WI-FI;

EID: 84889645629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2507924.2507960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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