BeamSpy: Enabling robust 60 GHz links under blockage

Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 193-206

  Sur, Sanjib ^a   Zhang, Xinyu ^a   Ramanathan, Parmesh ^a   Chandra, Ranveer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; FORECASTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

60-GHZ RADIO; ADAPTATION PROTOCOLS; ASSESSMENT SCHEME; BEAM DIRECTION; INVARIANT CORRELATION; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; PREDICTION MODEL; RECONFIGURABLE;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 85077095068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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