Optimal deployment of large wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2935-2953

  Toumpis, Stavros ^a   Tassiulas, Leandros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capacity; Electrostatics; Node placement; Physical layer; Sensor networks; Wireless ad hoc networks

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OPTIMAL NODE PLACEMENT; PHYSICAL LAYER; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33746903931     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2006.876256     Document Type: Article

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