The sectoral sweeper scheme for wireless sensor networks: Adaptive antenna array based sensor node management and location estimation

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 415-433

  Erdogan, Ayhan ^a   Coskun, Vedat ^b   Kavak, Adnan ^c  

^a Turkish Naval Academy   (Turkey)

^b ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antenna array; Location estimation; Node management; Sectoral sweeper; Task dissemination; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS; TRANSMITTERS;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNA ARRAY (AAA); LOCATION ESTIMATION; NODE MANAGEMENT; SECTORAL SWEEPER (SS); TASK DISSEMINATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (WSN);

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750315844     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-006-9058-1     Document Type: Article

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