Performance evaluation of single and multi-channel actor to actor communication for wireless sensor actor networks

Ad Hoc Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 487-498

  Vassis, Dimitris ^a   Kormentzas, George ^a   Skianis, Charalabos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

AAC; Analysis; Multi channel; Simulation; WSANs

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY HOPPING; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

AAC; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTI-HOP TRAFFIC; WSANS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646526022     PISSN: 15708705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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