On computing mobile agent routes for data fusion in distributed sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 740-753

  Wu, Qishi ^a   Rao, Nageswara S V ^a   Barhen, Jacob ^a   Sitharama Iyengar, S ^b   Vaishnavi, Vijay K ^c   Qi, Hairong ^d   Chakrabarty, Krishnendu ^e  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^e Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed sensor networks; Genetic algorithms; Mobile agents

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS (DSN); MOBILE AGENT-BASED DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS (MADSN); MOBILE AGENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042546259     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2004.12     Document Type: Article

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