Mobility improves coverage of sensor networks

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 300-308

  Liu, Benyuan ^a   Brass, Peter ^b   Dousse, Olivier ^c   Nain, Philippe ^d   Towsley, Don ^e  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b The Graduate Center   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage; Mobility; Sensor Network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; MOBILITY; SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 29844435167     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1062689.1062728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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