Design Considerations for Energy-Efficient Radios in Wireless Microsensor Networks

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-94

  Shih, Eugene ^a   Cho, Seonghwan ^a   Lee, Fred S ^a   Calhoun, Benton H ^a   Chandrakasan, Anantha ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Power aware; Short range radio design; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSENSORS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIO;

POWER-AWARE; SHORT-RANGE RADIO DESIGN; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842790390     PISSN: 13875485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VLSI.0000017004.57230.91     Document Type: Article

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