Channel allocation strategies for wireless sensors statically deployed in multipath environments

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN '06

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 334-341

  Galbreath, Jake ^a   Frolik, Jeff ^b  

^a MicroStrain Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Link optimization; Multipath fading; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATIONS; LINK OPTIMIZATION; NETWORK ANALYZER FUNCTIONALITY; REAL-WORLD DATA; WIRELESS SENSORS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA REDUCTION; MULTIPATH FADING; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; MICROCONTROLLERS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADIO COMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; FREQUENCY BANDS;

EID: 34247398381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1127777.1127828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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