Directional transmissions and receptions for high-throughput bulk forwarding in wireless sensor networks

SenSys 2015 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 351-364

  Varshney, Ambuj ^a   Mottola, Luca ^b,c   Voigt, Thiemo ^c   Carlsson, Mats ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bulk data transmissions; Directional antennas; Electronically controlled antennas; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; THROUGHPUT; TITRATION;

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; CHANNEL CONTENTION; COMMUNICATION RANGE; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MAXIMUM THROUGH-PUT; PACKET FORWARDING;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84962911793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2809695.2809720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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