Phaser: Enabling phased array signal processing on commodity WiFi access points

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 153-163

  Gjengset, Jon ^a   Xiong, Jie ^a   McPhillips, Graeme ^a   Jamieson, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angle of arrival; Location tracking; NICS synchronization; Phase calibration; Phased array; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; IEEE STANDARDS; NETWORK SECURITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION); WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

AOA (ANGLEOF-ARRIVAL); ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; MOBILE NETWORKING; NICS SYNCHRONIZATION; PHASE CALIBRATION; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PHASE OFFSETS; PHASED-ARRAYS; SIGNAL-PROCESSING; WI-FI ACCESS POINTS;

ARRAY PROCESSING;

EID: 84907853338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2639108.2639139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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