Directional Communications to Improve Multicast Lifetime in Ad Hoc Networks

Wireless ad-hoc networks are easily deployed, untethered to infrastructure, and have virtually an unlimited number of applications. However, this flexibility comes at the cost of finite and often unreplenishable power supplies. Once a node has consumed all of its power, it can no longer receive, tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, Kerry Neil
Other Authors: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28599
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08102006-080207/