Advances in IEEE 802.11ah standardization for machine-type communications in sub-1GHz WLAN

2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1269-1273

  Zhou, Yuan ^a   Wang, Haiguang ^a   Zheng, Shoukang ^a   Lei, Zander Zhongding ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

extended range Wi Fi; IEEE 802.11ah; M2M; MTC; sensor network; smart grid; sub 1GHz; WLAN

Indexed keywords

IEEE 802.11AH; M2M; MTC; SMART GRID; SUB-1GHZ; WLAN;

SENSOR NETWORKS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 84890872028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2013.6649432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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