A theory of network localization

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1663-1677

  Aspnes, James ^b   Eren, Tolga ^a,c   Goldenberg, David K ^a,b   Morse, A Stephen ^a,b   Whiteley, Walter ^d   Yang, Richard ^b   Anderson, Brian D O ^a,e   Belhumeur, Peter N ^a,f  

^a IEEE

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c Arifiye Mh Alaeaain Cd   (Turkey)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f National ICT Australia Ltd ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm protocol design and analysis; Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity; Architectures; Communication networking and IT; Computer systems organization; Mobile computing; Nonnumerical algorithms and problems; Theory of computation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS ORGANIZATION; GROUNDED GRAPHS; NETWORK LOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33750831866     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2006.174     Document Type: Article

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