VMNet: Realistic emulation of Wireless Sensor Networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 277-288

  Wu, Hejun ^a   Luo, Qiong ^a   Zheng, Pei ^b   Ni, Lionel M ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Emulation; Performance evaluation; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SENSORS;

EMULATED NODES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RADIO CHANNEL; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846882027     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2007.33     Document Type: Article

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