Location tracking in a wireless sensor network by mobile agents and its data fusion strategies

Computer Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 448-460

  Tseng, Yu Chee ^a   Kuo, Sheng Po ^a   Lee, Hung Wei ^a   Huang, Chi Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; MICROSENSORS; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TRACKING (POSITION); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOCATION TRACKING PROTOCOL; MOBILE AGENTS; VORONOI GRAPH; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 3142747607     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/47.4.448     Document Type: Article

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