Estimation of the number of operating sensors in large-scale sensor networks with mobile access

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1703-1715

  Budianu, Christian ^a,c   Ben David, Shai ^b   Tong, Lang ^c  

^a QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Large deviation analysis; Nonparametric estimation; Sensor lifetime estimation; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS;

LARGE DEVIATION ANALYSIS; MOBILE ACCESS POINT; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; SENSOR LIFETIME ESTIMATION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33646072127     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.871973     Document Type: Article

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